<P> Ski - Doo is a brand name of snowmobile manufactured by Bombardier Recreational Products (originally Bombardier Inc. before the spin - off). The Ski - Doo personal snowmobile brand is so iconic, especially in Canada, that it was listed in 7th place on the CBC's The Greatest Canadian Invention list in 2007 . </P> <P> Ski - Doo also has its own range of snowmobile suits . </P> <P> The first Ski - Doo was launched in 1959 . It was a new invention of Joseph - Armand Bombardier . The original name was Ski - Dog, but a typographical error in a Bombardier brochure changed the name Ski - Dog to Ski - Doo . </P> <P> The first Ski - Doos found customers with missionaries, trappers, prospectors, land surveyors and others who need to travel in snowy, remote areas . The largest success for the snowmobile came from sport enthusiasts, a market that opened the door to massive production of snowmobiles . This popularity led to skidoo (sometimes ski - doo), with the derived verb skidooing (or ski - dooing), becoming the traditional generic term for snowmobile in much of Canada . </P>

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