Children laugh gleefully while sledding down hills.

Meaning: The children are having a lot of fun sledding down the hills.

Choice of Words: Laugh means to make sounds expressing amusement or happiness. Gleefully means in a very happy and cheerful manner. Sledding is an activity where people ride on sleds down snowy hills. Hills are elevated areas of land. Children are very happy and laughing as they ride sleds down the hills.

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The children are having a blast sledding down the hills.

Meaning: This sentence describes children who are having a lot of fun sledding down hills.

Choice of Words: The children are the young people who are sledding. Are having a blast means they are having a lot of fun. Sledding is the activity of sliding down a hill on a sled, which is a flat piece of wood or plastic with runners on the bottom. Down means moving from a higher place to a lower place. The hills are raised areas of land.

The kids are zooming down the slopes on their sleds.

Meaning: This sentence describes children who are moving very fast down the sides of hills on their sleds.

Choice of Words: The kids are the young people who are sledding. Are zooming means they are moving very fast. Down means moving from a higher place to a lower place. The slopes are the sides of the hills. On means that the kids are sitting or standing on their sleds. Their sleds are the flat pieces of wood or plastic with runners on the bottom that the kids are using to slide down the hills.

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