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• n  a device to help you walk on deep snow; a lightweight frame shaped like a racquet is strengthened with cross pieces and contains a network of thongs; one is worn on each foot
• v  travel on snowshoes
  After a heavy snowfall, we have to snowshoe to the grocery store

• Contestants webbed their feet with snowshoes, raced a 150-yard snowshoe dash; they laced long runners to their feet and maneuvered before judges (ski proficiency test) ; they .
• Last winter he strapped snowshoes on his serviceable feet and finished seventh in the three-day snowshoe race from Quebec to Montreal.
• Among the best places to snowshoe on the East Coast is Bretton Woods.

News & Articles

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• Tularemia Cases Reported In Delta Junction
  A snowshoe hare has tested positive for Tularemia in Fairbanks. The sick animal was found by member of the public and brought it to a local vet, where it was dead upon arrival. Download Audio
  June 22, 2013 - Alaska Public Radio Network
• Dead snowshoe hare in Fairbanks tied to bacterial disease
  Tests have confirmed that a snowshoe hare from the Fairbanks area died of Tularemia last week, a bacterial disease that can be passed to humans. "Hares die of this infection every spring and summer in the Interior," said wildlife veterinarian Dr.
  June 21, 2013 - Juneau Empire
• Snowshoe Hare from Fairbanks had Bacterial Disease
  FAIRBANKS, AK - A snowshoe hare from the Fairbanks area has tested positive for Tularemia. State game officials say tularemia also affects beavers and muskrats. The bacterial disease can be be spread to predators, including domestic dogs and cats. Humans can also be infected by handling infected animals. Symptoms are very serious and include skin ulcers, fever, swollen lymph nodes, headaches ...
  June 20, 2013 - KTVF Fairbanks

Quotes

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• Scott Mills in Newswise (press release)
  That's just an embarrassing moment for a snowshoe hare to think that it's invisible when it's not,said Mills with a grin, quickly adding that seeing such mismatched colors is becoming all too common and disturbing.
• Rodney Hall in MaineToday.com
  A lot of people snowshoe on hard-packed trails. We snowshoe where there are no trails. We don't have any other way to get to the trees,Hall said.
• Rick Steves in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  Travel author Rick Steves said he fits in with the Hempfest crowd "like a snowshoe in Mazatlan," but "loves being the 'mainstream' guy there."