Sled dog racing

Sled dog racing
An 11-dog team of Siberian Huskies, racing in Frauenwald, Thuringia, Germany, in 2012
Governing body	International Federation of Sleddog Sports (IFSS)

Sled dog racing (sometimes termed dog sled racing) is a winter dog sport most popular in the Arctic regions of the United States, Canada, Russia, Greenland and some European countries.^[1] It involves the timed competition of teams of sled dogs that pull a sled with the dog driver or musher standing on the runners. The team completing the marked course in the least time is judged the winner.^{[citation needed]}

Sled dogs, known also as sleighman dogs, sledge dogs, or sleddogs, are a highly trained dog type that are used to pull a dog sled, a wheel-less vehicle on runners, over snow or ice, by means of harnesses and lines.^{[citation needed]}