snowshoe

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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
• snowshoe disease
• snowshoe evil
• snowshoe foot
• snowshoe hare
• snowshoed a
• snowshoeing n
• snowshoer
• snowshoe rabbit

Translations

flat footwear worn to facilitate walking in deep snow

• Czech: sněžnice (cs) f
• Finnish: lumikenkä (fi)
• French: raquette à neige f
• German: Schneeschuh (de) m
• Greek: χιονοπάπουτσο (el) (chionopápoutso) n 
• Irish: bróg sneachta (ga) f

• Italian: racchetta da neve f, ciaspola f
• Japanese: かんじき (ja) (kanjiki)
• Korean: 눈신 (ko) (nunsin)
• Polish: rakieta śnieżna (pl) f
• Swedish: snösko (sv)
• Welsh: esgid eira (cy) f

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) to travel using snowshoes