snow fort

See also: snowfort

English

A large snow fort in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Alternative forms

• snowfort

Noun

snow fort (plural snow forts)

1. (chiefly Northern US and Canada) A walled structure constructed of snow and used for children's wintertime play.

   Synonym: snow castle

   • 1990 February 1, Sue Lebrecht, “You need patience building snow fort”, in Toronto Star, page A23:

     Knowing the proper art of building a quin-zhee could have saved me and my friends from many snow fort cave-ins when young.

   • 2008, Laura Dolce, "Seeing snow through a child's life," seacoastonline.com (New Hampshire), 3 Jan.,

     It wasn't a big lawn . . . but to us it was stadium-sized, with plenty of room for snow angels, snowball fights and the all-important snow forts.

Translations

snow structure

• Finnish: lumilinna (fi)

See also

• igloo
• quinzhee
• snowcrete