snow fort

plural snow forts · alternative snowfort

1. CanadaNorthern USA walled structure constructed of snow and used for children's wintertime play.

   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.

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

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

   Synonyms: snow castle