![Bobsleighing has thrilled participants and spectators alike for more than 130 years.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/bob-titel-300x225.jpg)
From snob sport to bob sport
It’s no accident who goes in for what sport in a particular era. The example of bobsleighing demonstrates this very well.
![The tourists’ sleighs were based on the North American-style construction of the toboggan.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/toboggan-189x300.jpg)
![Even before the invention of the bobsleigh, sleighing was a leisure activity engaged in by all social classes.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/schlitteln-300x180.jpg)
What is true ice sleighing?
![Toboggan pilot on the upper part of the Cresta Run, 1902.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/tobogganing-220x300.jpg)
Sport, parties and celebrities
![German Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia with his bobsleigh ‘Roter Adler’ (Red Eagle) in St Moritz in 1911.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/kronprinz-bob-300x213.jpg)
![The upper crust turned these bobsleigh events into real occasions. Here, a group picnics on the frozen lake in St Moritz.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/party-auf-dem-see-300x212.jpg)
Bobsleigh race in St Moritz, 1927. YouTube / British Pathé
![Village sleighing in St Moritz around 1910.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/dorfschlitteln-300x177.jpg)
Were the women too fast?
![Bachmann bobsleigh in the race for the Montreux Cup; Les Avants 1908. In the 3-man bob event, one team member had to be a woman.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/frauen-1-300x235.jpg)
Burdet and Sutter in a World Cup race during the 1998/99 season. YouTube
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