I bet few people from the South ever heard the phrase "hooky-bobbin'"

[Bandit]

It was something I grew up doing but don't ever hear anyone doing it any more...It is grabbing hold of the rear bumper of a car and let then pull you along while sliding in the snow with just your shoes. Every kid in alaska knows the term I am fairly certain..

[frogmarch]

1. I know the word. I grew up in

western Nebraska, and since we had no hills to sled down, we hooky-bobbed by hooking our hands onto car bumpers and using the cars as bobsleds!

[Proud Public Servant]

2. In Chicago we called that

"Skitchin'." No idea why, or how far beyond Chicagoland that term prevailed.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. We called it Skitchin' in NYC, too

[July]

9. Same in Buffalo when I was a kid.

I have an older relative ( probably around 90 now) in Buffalo who lost a leg skitchin'.

[MineralMan]

3. On most modern cars, there's nothing to hold onto

on the rear bumper. More's the pity.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. We called that "Skitchin'" in NYC

Was especially popular to do it with buses.

[benld74]

6. Group of friends did this in the 70's, using the door handles instead.

until the driver turned down the wrong road(in the country). Steep hill on one side, steeper hill on the other side. We walked home that night!

[PowerToThePeople]

7. I break too easy now

hooky-bobbing is for young people who heal fast.

[dem in texas]

8. We lived in Alaska (Fairbanks and Anchorage) while my kids were growing up

Two things I always said to them in the winter, look out for the moose and don't let me catch you "hooky-bobbin".

[bowens43]

10. did that a lot where I grew up in ohio but we didnt have a name for it