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** Shows up in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3'' in Dante's EstablishingCharacterMoment CutScene. Then as a GrappleMove in the game proper. It is done by jumping on a downed enemy then pressing forward (as in where Dante is facing). You can also shoot while surfing just like in the CutScene.
** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' has Nero doing it to 4's TheGoomba-- the Scarecrows, in the second mission's first CutScene. By using his {{Rocket Powered|Weapon}} Sword as a booster.

* In ''Film/ScoobyDoo'', after Scooby and Shaggy slides down a hill with manhole covers, one of the two living skeletons that followed them turns the other into a makeshift sled to follow the former two.

* Despite the fact that ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}}'s TTK means he could hold his friends up for flying if even a centimeter of any of them or their clothing was in contact with him and his complaints about flying ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} around by holding his hand he still acts affronted at the suggestion that he let any of them stand on him while he's flying instead.

* The entire premise of ''VideoGame/GensouSkydrift'' revolves around the cast of ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' using each other as these, while being able to switch places at will. [[ExcusePlot It apparently saves energy (Gensokyo's magic is being drained)]].

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]'', Owen ate all the meat his team was supposed to use to stuff their sausage they would use to sled down the hill. Alejandro suggests they ride Owen down, which Chris allows.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E23KingOfTheHill King Of The Hill]]," Homer uses a corpse as a makeshift sled to get down the tallest mountain in Springfield, aptly named the Murderhorn.
** In another episode where Homer is doped up on Sleepacin and goes sleepwalking, Bart takes advantage of this by having Homer sleep-drive him and Milhouse around town, and eventually they use Homer's body to go sleep-sledding down a grassy hill.

* The entire premise of ''VideoGame/GensouSkydrift'' revolves around the cast of ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' using each other as these, while being able to switch places at will. [[ExcusePlot It apparently saves energy (Gensokyo's magic is being drained]].

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** Shows up in ''Videogame/DevilMayCry 3'' in Dante's EstablishingCharacterMoment CutScene. Then as a GrappleMove in the game proper. It is done by jumping on a downed enemy then pressing forward (as in where Dante is facing). You can also shoot while surfing just like in the CutScene.
** ''Videogame/DevilMayCry 4'' has Nero doing it to 4's TheGoomba-- the Scarecrows, in the second mission's first CutScene. By using his {{Rocket Powered|Weapon}} Sword as a booster.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}} "I suppose in his head, if there's no hog to hump or bear to bonk, you just gotta ride the nearest scientist, that's fair."]]]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Too cool for a real snowboard.]]

-->-- '''Description for [=HumiliSkate=]''', ''VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity''

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Queen Atomia rides on the back of one of her flying Nutron mooks, and ComicBook/SteveTrevor and Diana stand atop one each while the Nutrons are returning to their master in order to confront her.

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* One ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}'' arc ended with the villain's corpse being used as a surfboard by Deadpool.

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* In ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'', Legolas surfs the body of a dead orc during an orc raid against the wood elves' halls.
* Occurs in the movie ''Film/SuperMarioBros'', as the brothers escape Koopa's Tower with the kidnapped girls. A gang of goombas set on after them and end up using one of their own as a sled. While they sled down the frozen pipeworks [[ImplausibleBoardingSkills with a mattress from their cell.]]
* In ''Film/ScoobyDoo'', after Scooby and Shaggy slides down a hill with manhole covers, one of the two living skeletons that followed them turns the other into a makeshift sled to follow the former two.
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* In Disney/BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas, Lumiere rides Cogsworth like a snowboard through the forest.

* In Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Elasti-Girl is able to shape her body into a boat to contain her children, and let her son use his super speed to propel them, to make landfall on Nomanisan Island.
* In a special short of ''WesternAnimation/HowtoTrainyourDragon'' Hiccup and Astrid go bobsledding, using a guy named Bob. This is the correct procedure for bobsledding in the village.

Self-sledding only counts if used outside slides. Because "[[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs using yourself as a sled in a slide]]" is [[SquarePegRoundTrope stretching the trope a bit too much]].

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* [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Penguins]] use their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkMzHGA8GgM own body as sleds]] to travel on ice. Since AsYouKnow, they can't run. {{Justified|Trope}} because their bodies' layer of fat (plus the fact that they do it on ice, which is not rough like the ground) makes it painless for them.

* in one of the ''Tacky the Penguin'' books, the group winds up accidentally using Tacky as a sled during a competition. They're disqualified for not using a proper sled.

* In episode 19 of ''MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'', Mika uses the body of a defeated Graze Ritter as a sled/heat shield to enter Earth's atmosphere.