snowshoe

See also: Snowshoe

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English

Etymology

snow +‎ shoe

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsnoʊʃu/

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Noun

snowshoe (plural snowshoes)

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

Synonyms

• web (informal)

Derived terms

• snowshoe cat
• snowshoed
• snowshoe disease
• snowshoe evil
• snowshoe foot
• snowshoe hare
• snowshoeing
• snowshoer
• snowshoe rabbit

 

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)
• Macedonian: снегоодалка f (snegoodalka), снежница f (snežnica)
• 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)

1. (intransitive) To travel using snowshoes.