Sleds (or "sledges") are generally pulled by a person (or sometimes self-propelled with sticks), rather than a horse-drawn sleigh. These words, of course, are etymologically similar, and many languages don't make any distinction between these concepts.

• Four sledges from the Oseberg burial mound, 9th century. See also these photos, the MAHS Viking Sled Project, and Land Travel in the Viking Age.
• Laertia complains to Fescennius, Life of St. Denis (BNF Fr. 2092, fol. 4v), 1317
• December, the Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal (PML M.52, fol. 7v), c. 1500-1510
• January (fol. 18v) and December (fol. 29v), The Golf Book (British Library Add. 24098, c. 1520-1530
• Conrad, age ten, plays in the snow, in the Schwartz Trachtenbuch, 1561
• Detail from The Census at Bethlehem by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566
• Detail from Adoration of the Magi by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1567; see also Adoration of the Magi by Pieter Bruegel the Younger, c. 1600
• Winter by Jost Amman
• Winter by Jacob Grimmer
• A sled designed for the Elector Christian II for a pageant, by Daniel Bretschneider, c. 1602
• Winter Landscape with Skaters by Hendrick Avercamp
• Winter by Simon Frisius, c. 1618
• Winter landscape by Abel Grimmer