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is alicia welcome back to top words
today we're going to talk about 10 snow
activity words so let's go
sledding
the first word is sledding sledding is a
popular snow activity so a sled is
required to do this so a sled is like a
smallish plastic toy that kids usually
can sit in so to go sledding there's
usually a snowy hill so kids go up the
hill with the sled and then put the sled
down sit on the sled and slide down the
hill or sled down the hill so this
activity of going up the hill and coming
down the hill is called sledding it's a
lot of fun okay in a sentence have you
ever tried sledding
skiing the next word is skiing so skiing
takes the same idea as sledding however
the
equipment is just different so skis
there are two pieces uh two
like essentially long sticks we attach
to our feet and then we take a chair
lift usually so we take a ride up a
mountain and get to the top of the
mountain attach the skis to our feet and
go down the mountain so there's no
sitting down hopefully here
just riding on the skis two pieces
attached to our feet down the mountain
in a sentence let's go skiing this
weekend
okay
snowboarding
the next word is snowboarding
snowboarding so again same idea go to
the top of a snowy hill and come down
but again the equipment is different so
skis as we talked about
there's one piece of equipment attached
to each foot snowboarding however has
just one piece of equipment that is
attached to both feet it's a board like
a skateboard really so again we take it
to the top of the hill attach it and
slide down snowboard down the mountain
we can use snowboard and ski as verbs as
well in a sentence i haven't been
snowboarding since high school that's
true
snowball fight
the next expression is snowball fight a
snowball fight is a very popular thing
for kids and adults to do so a snowball
is just a ball made from fresh snow and
a fight is everybody throws snowballs at
each other so snowball fights can be
very dangerous if you tightly pack the
snowballs it's generally nice to pack
the snowballs lightly by pack i mean
like to crush to crush them lightly if
you make them very very tight you can
really hurt somebody when you throw it
at them but a snowball fight is
generally like a fun game that kids and
adults can play together in a sentence
we should organize a big snowball fight
igloo
the next word is igloo igloo so igloo is
actually a word that comes from a
different well it comes from the inuits
i believe
which refers to houses or refers to
buildings made from snow and ice
but
building small houses which we can also
perhaps call igloos in some way can also
be a fun activity for kids and families
to do on snowy days so making kind of
it's not really a house necessarily but
just it's just making a small structure
something small out from snow that
children can go inside and play in and
it's just kind of a different experience
an interesting new space for kids to
explore so
we can say making an igloo or building
an igloo is a popular snow activity in
another sentence i want to try making an
igloo someday
snowshoeing
the next expression is snow shoeing snow
shoeing so this is an interesting one
that's kind of i've heard it's very
difficult i've never done it myself
but in it's typically done in places
where the snow is very light so you
attach a special it looks kind of like a
tennis racket if you can imagine it
you attach this to each foot a snow shoe
it's called a snowshoe and then you can
walk across the snow even the very light
snow so if you don't wear snowshoes you
might fall through the snow but wearing
snowshoes allows you to walk across the
very light snow so you can get kind of
an interesting experience like hiking
through the snow a little bit
but with special shoes that allow you to
do that so snowshoeing is a popular
activity in a sentence
snowshoeing is really good exercise
tobogganing
the next word is tobogganing tobogganing
is very similar to sledding and that
it's going down a hill in like a
something you can sit in but a toboggan
is a it's like a long sled you can think
of that um also to my understanding
there are traditional toboggans made
from wood as well um that were very fast
uh in the snow and that could go down
mountains and hills very quickly
so but tobogganing is something that
people still do in snowy weather
but yeah they can be very quick and very
kind of dangerous if you don't know how
to control them a toboggan is used for
tobogganing so toboggan is the equipment
the item used to go down the hill in a
sentence tobogganing seems really fun
snow angel
the next expression is snow angel a snow
angel this is a very simple just like
great thing to do at the end of a day
when you've been playing in the snow so
a snow angel
is you lay your body down in the ground
and when your body is laying in the snow
you make this motion with your arms and
you make the same motion with your feet
and then someone helps you to stand up
from that position
the shape that your body creates from
this motion it looks like an angel a
little bit so we call that a snow angel
making a snow angel so that's kind of a
fun thing to do
at the end of the day when you're tired
from playing in the snow in a sentence
my brother and i used to lay in the snow
and make snow angels that's true okay
build a snowman
next one the next one is snowman a
snowman or snow woman i guess is uh is a
very popular activity in the snow
especially for kids so the idea is you
roll balls of snow together usually two
or three
i think well you have to have minimum
two
so you roll a ball of snow up
and then you roll a slightly smaller
ball of snow and put it on top of the
first ball and then maybe another
slightly smaller one usually there's
like three and they make the like lower
part the middle part and the head of a
person and then if you've watched movies
sometimes um families use like a carrot
for a nose or pieces of coal for eyes
maybe there's a hat on it so it's a
popular family activity to make a man or
a woman or maybe sometimes a snow family
from the snow in their yard so this is a
really really fun exercise in a sentence
do you want to build a snowman
build a snow fort
the last expression is build a snow fort
build a snow fort so a fort means like
well a fort literally a fort is like a
place a safe place for like military or
for like fighters to stay but in this
case children like to build snow forts
like maybe for their snowball fights so
it's like a wall or it's like a base
made from snow that kids can hide in or
play in or use to guard them in snowball
fights so building a snow fort can be a
lot of fun for kids in a sentence have
you ever built a snow fort all right so
those are ten snow activity words i hope
that that was interesting for you is
there anything that you like to do or
that you did when you were a kid in the
snow in your country these are a few
things that are popular in the usa but
if there's something that's interesting
or popular to do in the snow in your
country let us know in the comments
section
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