[ptaipale]

The Finnish variant is a Stiga Jet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdiPmYSTwlU

(The video starts pretty slowly, and doesn't provide much info about how that was built, but it looks fun. There are also plenty of more scaled-up projects, basically looking like combining a ski-doo with a V-1 rocket).

(I actually used a kicksled in the winters to go to school, until I got a moped.)

[Thlom]

In some parts of Norway they only clear snow from half of the sidewalk so you can use kicksled on the other half.

[drderidder]

What is a kicksled??? I want one already!

[update] wow...found one, the kickspark! Awesome. http://www.goslide.ca/en/shop/kickspark.php

[ptaipale]

That's the modern sports variant. The traditional one is better suited for transporting stuff and one or even two passengers as well: http://www.esla.fi/fin/potkukelkka.html

In good conditions this can be amazingly fast, and two people can alternate so that one pushes the sled and the other one rests on the seat.

[ptaipale]

That is nice. Particularly when my kids were small, I would have liked to take them to the daycare in a toboggan, but the pavements were always ruined with grit.