Snow Sports Vocabulary

noun a mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly down a mountainside

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• The avalanche warning has been issued for the mountainous region.
• Did you hear about the avalanche that happened last week?
• That party was an avalanche of fun!
• The scandal caused an avalanche of negative publicity for the company.

noun a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes

verb to fall as or like snow

• The snowfall in the region has been unusually heavy this winter.
• Hey, did you see how much snow we got last night?
• I love it when the white stuff starts coming down!
• Her heart was as cold and unforgiving as snow on a winter's day.

noun a mound or bank of snow, especially along the side of a road or path

• The car skidded off the road and into a snowbank.
• We had to dig the car out of the snowbank before we could leave.
• I almost wiped out on my snowboard and ended up in the snowbank.
• She felt like she was stuck in a snowbank of paperwork at work.

noun a weather phenomenon in which snow falls from the sky

• The snowfall last night blanketed the entire town in a thick layer of white.
• I heard the snowfall is supposed to be pretty heavy tomorrow, so we should be prepared.
• The snowfall was lit last night - everything looked so pretty covered in snow!
• Her tears fell like a gentle snowfall, quiet and steady.