Seat for sliding on snow and ice

A unitary sheet for transporting a seated rider over a surface, which comprises:

• a planar seat section having a maximum width, a bottom surface suitable for sliding on said surface, and a top surface suitable for seating said seated rider;
• a handle section providing hand grip means for gripping by said seated rider;
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• an interconnecting section having a minimum width, a first end extending from said minimum width to said planar seat section, a second end extending from said minimum width to said handle section, and wherein said interconnecting section is flexible in a vertical direction from the plane of said planar seat section and wherein said interconnecting section has a shape so as to permit close contact of said interconnecting section with the crotch area of said seated rider when said interconnecting section is flexed in said vertical direction, and wherein said unitary sheet has a substantially uniform thickness in the range of from about 0.1 millimeter to about 50 millimeters and comprises substantially a single material of polyethylene.