What is "snowshoes"

Usage examples of "snowshoes".

The aluminum snowshoes were light and had steely-toothed crampons on the bottom that gripped snow crust well.

Like the snowshoes, long razor-sharp steel teeth stuck out from the bottoms of the crampons, but these teeth were longer and sharper, made for ice.

The crampons had an extra pair of teeth the snowshoes did not have and they jutted straight out from the toe at ninety-degree angles.

Jack slapped our snowshoes down, checked his watch, and touched my hair.

Wind in the trees roared like rushing water, drowning out the thump of our snowshoes slapping snow.

Jack slipped his goggles on, removed his snowshoes, and motioned for me to do the same.

Without snowshoes, I fell through the snow crust and sank in up to my thighs.

I was standing on snowshoes, looking out over the frozen river, when Keeonekh appeared in an open pool with a trout in his mouth.

There were tracks of a grouse in the snow,- -blunt tracks that rested lightly on the soft whiteness, showing that Nature remembered his necessity and had caused his new snowshoes to grow famously.

This was the lesson that the great woods whispered sadly when a few idle March days found me gliding on snowshoes over the old familiar ground.

The hard crust, which made such excellent running for my snowshoes, seemed bitterly cruel when I thought of the starving wild things and of the abundance of food on the brown earth, just four feet below their hungry bills and noses.

My snowshoes clicked a rapid march through the sad gray woods, while the March wind thrummed an accompaniment high up among the bare branches, and the ground-spruce nodded briskly, beating time with their green tips, as if glad of any sound or music that would break the chill silence until the birds came back.

But the snowshoes clicked on, away from the sweet blarney, Leaving behind the little flatterers who were honestly glad to see me in the woods again, and who would fain have delayed me.

Presently, above the scrape of my snowshoes, I heard the deer coming, cr-r-runch!

But he stopped and lay quiet at the first sound of my snowshoes behind him.