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UK
/snˈəʊʃuː/
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[ US /ˈsnoʊˌʃu/ ]
[ US /ˈsnoʊˌʃu/ ]
VERB
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travel on snowshoes
After a heavy snowfall, we have to snowshoe to the grocery store
NOUN
- a device to help you walk on deep snow; a lightweight frame shaped like a racquet is strengthened with cross pieces and contains a network of thongs; one is worn on each foot
How To Use snowshoe In A Sentence
- Tough, stylish, and super comfy, this leather slip-on is the perfect after-sport snowshoe.
- Before the advent of the snowmobile, Ms. McLeod would run in front of the dog sled team in snowshoes to break the snow and clear a path.
- Since my first outing with a group called the Tahoe Trekkers, I've hiked in Patagonia, snowshoed in British Columbia, trekked in Nepal and backpacked my way up Mount Whitney.
- The area where they had stopped was clearly marked, and so were some of their snowshoe tracks. THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
- Getting dressed on the side of a logging road with no real place to park, we scramble to get our clothes on, gear stashed and snowshoes lashed to our boots before the first crazed logger sweeps around the corner in his big rig.
- Their principle source of food is mice, but squirrels, snowshoe hares, and pikas are also popular.
- First, we snowshoed up and around Wuksachi Lodge, following coyote tracks across the meadows.
- After three days, Laura couldn't stand it anymore, and she snowshoed into East Corinth to find a telephone.
- Banks of snow cut them off; snowshoes sank in air pockets -- holes made by protruding limbs of the short, gnarled trees of timber line, -- and through these the man fought in short, spasmodic lunges, breaking the way for the woman who came behind, never stopping except to gather strength for a fresh attack, never ceasing for obstacle or for danger. The White Desert
- Though technically closed in winter, an unplowed mile-long access road leads skiers and snowshoers to the 1929 castlelike Vikingsholm and lake-level views of a snow-cloaked Fannette Island.