Skeleton is a winter sliding sport in which a person rides a small sled, known as a skeleton bobsled (or 🧲 -sleigh), down a frozen track while lying face down and head-first.

The sport and the sled may have been named from 🧲 the bony appearance of the sled.[1]

Unlike other sliding sports of bobsleigh and luge, the race always involves single riders.

Like bobsleigh, 🧲 but unlike luge, the race begins with a running start from the opening gate at the top of the course.

The 🧲 skeleton sled is thinner and heavier than the luge sled, and skeleton gives the rider more precise control of the 🧲 sled.