snowshoe

Everyday

1. A snowshoe is a wide flat frame you tie under your boot so you can walk on deep snow without sinking. tree →
2. To snowshoe means to walk on snow wearing snowshoes. tree →
3. A snowshoe hare is a hare with big furry feet that turns white in winter. tree →

In the lessons

Comes up in stories and lessons about Canada, the Arctic, winter sports and First Nations inventions; in science, a snowshoe spreads your weight over a bigger area so the pressure is smaller; the snowshoe hare appears in food-chain lessons.

Examples

• We strapped on snowshoes and crossed the meadow. tree →
• Snowshoes stop you sinking into deep snow. tree →
• Indigenous peoples of North America invented many kinds of snowshoe. tree →
• We went snowshoeing in the mountains in Canada. tree →
• The snowshoe hare turns white in winter. tree →
• Bigger snowshoes spread your weight over more snow. tree →
• I was just thinking what good snowshoes it would make,” answered the fox in an absent voice, as if he was not thinking of what he was saying. tree →

Note

Usually used in pairs: «a pair of snowshoes». Past form of the verb: snowshoed. Science link: same weight on a bigger area means less pressure.