the Ice Age

noun

: the most recent time in the past when a large part of the world was covered with ice

a valley formed during the Ice Age

Examples of the Ice Age in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

During the day, visitors can check out the University of Alaska’s Museum of the North, which displays Indigenous artwork, a mummified bison from the Ice Age, and, soon, the famous Into the Wild bus. —Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 7 Nov. 2025

Saito's hike comes amid a surge of interest in the Ice Age Trail, largely fueled by COVID-19. —Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025

Since the Ice Age, elkhorn and staghorn corals off Florida’s southern coast have been stacking their skeletons into elaborate, branching homes for parrotfish, eels and octopuses. —Evan Bush, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025

The Proto-Indo-Europeans are recent arrivals in our species’ story; the Ice Age ended twelve thousand years ago, the out-of-Africa migration took place around sixty thousand years ago, and Homo sapiens emerged about three hundred thousand years ago. —Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025

Rhymes for the Ice Age

• alienage
• assuage
• backstage
• bocage
• downstage
• engage
• enrage
• leafage
• messuage
• offstage
• onstage
• outrage