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# snowshoe

noun (a snowshoe, snowshoes); verb (snowshoe, snowshoes, snowshoed, snowshoeing)

«snowshoe» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A snowshoe is a wide flat frame you tie under your boot so you can walk on deep snow without sinking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#m1)
2. To snowshoe means to walk on snow wearing snowshoes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#m2)
3. A snowshoe hare is a hare with big furry feet that turns white in winter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#x1)
- Snowshoes stop you sinking into deep snow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#x2)
- Indigenous peoples of North America invented many kinds of snowshoe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#x3)
- We went snowshoeing in the mountains in Canada. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#x4)
- The snowshoe hare turns white in winter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#x5)
- Bigger snowshoes spread your weight over more snow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#x6)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/#x7)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «snowshoe» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowshoe/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«snowshoe» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/snowshoe.html) on Mova free.