snowshoe

See also: Snowshoe

English

Etymology

snow +‎ shoe

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈsnoʊʃu/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

snowshoe (plural snowshoes)

A flat item of footwear worn to facilitate walking in deep snow.

Synonyms

web (informal)

Derived terms

Terms derived from snowshoe

snowshoe cat
snowshoed
snowshoe disease

snowshoe evil
snowshoe foot
snowshoe hare

Translations

flat footwear worn to facilitate walking in deep snow

Basque: elur-erraketa
Catalan: raqueta (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 雪鞋 (zh) (xǔexíe)
Cree:
Plains Cree: asâm, ᐊᓵ
Czech: sněžnice (cs) f
Dutch: sneeuwschoen (nl) m
Finnish: lumikenkä (fi)
French: raquette à neige (fr) f
German: Schneeschuh (de) m
Greek: χιονοπέδιλο (el) n (chionopédilo)
Irish: bróg shneachta f

Italian: racchetta da neve f, ciaspola f
Japanese: かんじき (kanjiki)
Korean: 눈신 (nunsin)
Navajo: yaské, zaské
Persian: پاچیله‎‎ (pâčile)
Polish: rakieta śnieżna (pl) f
Portuguese: raquete (pt) f
Russian: снегосту́п (ru) m (snegostúp)
Spanish: raqueta (es) f
Swedish: snösko (sv)
Turkish: kar ayakkabısı (tr)
Welsh: esgid eira f

Verb

snowshoe (third-person singular simple present snowshoes, present participle snowshoeing, simple past and past participle snowshoed)

(intransitive) To travel using snowshoes.

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