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: a usually lightweight platform for the foot that is designed to enable a person to walk on soft snow without sinking and that typically consists of an oblong frame crossed with leather thongs or synthetic material
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Verb
We snowshoed through the woods.
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Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 22 Apr. 2025
In March and April, bring your snowshoes, Nordic skis or fat bike: This trail is snow-packed and groomed through early spring; it should be cleared for regular walking and biking by May.
—Jamie Siebrase, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2025
Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 15 Apr. 2025
My afternoons were filled with kayaking with humpback whales, zipping around in a zodiac raft to spot leopard seals, snowshoeing around glistening bays, and watching penguins slide down the soft snow on their bellies.
—Hannah Freedman, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2025
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Noun
The partners worked closely with the couple to ensure there was room for readings and concerts; storage for Char’s cello, violin, and piano and Neely-Cohen’s synthesizers and drum machines; and an elaborate house Char had built for her snowshoe cat, Detective.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 22 Apr. 2025
In March and April, bring your snowshoes, Nordic skis or fat bike: This trail is snow-packed and groomed through early spring; it should be cleared for regular walking and biking by May.
—Jamie Siebrase, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
The first stop where the Northern Lights could make an appearance is in Narvik, a small port city within the Arctic Circle where cruisers can participate in a Sámi Northern Lights ceremony, go snowshoeing in the mountains, or ride the cable car at Narvikfjellet.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 15 Apr. 2025
My afternoons were filled with kayaking with humpback whales, zipping around in a zodiac raft to spot leopard seals, snowshoeing around glistening bays, and watching penguins slide down the soft snow on their bellies.
—Hannah Freedman, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2025
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“Snowshoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snowshoe. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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snowshoe
1 of 2 noun
snow·shoe
-ˌshü 
: a light frame (as of wood or aluminum) strung with a net that is attached to the foot to prevent sinking in soft snow
snowshoe
2 of 2 verb
snowshoed; snowshoeing
: to travel on snowshoes
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