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: a usually lightweight platform for the foot that is designed to enable a person to walk on soft snow without sinking and that typically consists of an oblong frame crossed with leather thongs or synthetic material
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Verb
We snowshoed through the woods.
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Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
The teens were without snowshoes or headlamps and were having trouble navigating the trail, authorities said.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 28 Feb. 2025
For those who prefer cross-country skiing and snowshoeing to alpine skiing, get a ride to the nearby Devil’s Thumb Ranch Resort & Spa in Tabernash.
—Mindy Sink, The Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Otherwise, don your cross-country skis, snowshoes or boots (with crampons) and enjoy cruising or ambling along the almost seven-mile Lac-Brome Path that’s lined in places with a variety of trees such as fir, larch, white cedar and sugar maple.
—Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
The teens were without snowshoes or headlamps and were having trouble navigating the trail, authorities said.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Verb
Another high point was snowshoeing in a forested canyon where a waterfall was all icicles.
—Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 28 Feb. 2025
For those who prefer cross-country skiing and snowshoeing to alpine skiing, get a ride to the nearby Devil’s Thumb Ranch Resort & Spa in Tabernash.
—Mindy Sink, The Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2025
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“Snowshoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snowshoe. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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snowshoe
1 of 2 noun
snow·shoe
-ˌshü 
: a light frame (as of wood or aluminum) strung with a net that is attached to the foot to prevent sinking in soft snow
snowshoe
2 of 2 verb
snowshoed; snowshoeing
: to travel on snowshoes
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