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  • 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 consider him.

  • 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 this lead 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 is 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 to like essentially long sticks.

  • We attached to her 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, attached the skis to our feet and go down the mountain.

  • So there's no sitting down.

  • Hopefully here, just writing on the skis to 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, um, there's one piece of equipment attached to each foot.

  • Snowboarding, however, has just one piece of equipment that is attached 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 ascendance.

  • 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 d'oh!

  • So a snowball is just a ball made from fresh Nelle and a fight is.

  • Everybody throws snowballs at each other, so snowball fights can be very dangerous if you tightly packed the snowballs is generally nice to pack the snowballs lightly by pack.

  • I mean, like to crush to crush them, like 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 snow ball, fight a glue.

  • The next word is a glue glue.

  • So igloo is actually a word that comes from a different well.

  • It comes from the inn you.

  • It's, I believe, um, which refers to houses or refers to buildings made from snow and ice.

  • Um, 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 day.

  • So making kind of it's not really a house, necessarily, but just it's just making a small structure or something small up from snow.

  • The Children can go inside and play in.

  • 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 snowshoeing, snowshoeing, So this is an interesting one.

  • That's kind.

  • I've heard.

  • It's very difficult.

  • I've never done it myself.

  • But in its 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.

  • Ah, you attach this to each foot a snowshoe.

  • 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 little like a long sled.

  • You can think of them also to my understanding, their traditional toboggans made from wood as well that were very fast 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 yet 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 to begin 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.

  • Ah, 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.

  • A t 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 is 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 parts and the head off a person.

  • And then, ah, if you've watched movies, sometimes families used 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 wanna build a snowman?

  • Build a snow fort?

  • The last expression is build a snow fort build a snow fort, so afford means like, well, a fort literally afford is like a 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 face made from snow.

  • The kids can hide in or play in or used 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 10 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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