snowball fight

English

Depiction of a snowball fight, circa 1400 C.E..

Pronunciation

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Noun

snowball fight (plural snowball fights)

1. A scuffle or play fight whose object is to hit opponents with snowballs.
   • 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 2, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:

     "Oh, I mean a snowball fight. This is probably the last of the season, and I was thinking we could get a lot of fellows together, make a fort, and have a regular battle like we read about in Cæsar to-day. It would be no end of sport."

Translations

play fight

• Azerbaijani: qartopu
• Belarusian: снежкі́ m pl (snježkí)
• Catalan: lluita de bolas de neu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪仗 (zh) (xuězhàng)

• Czech: koulovačka (cs) f
• Danish: sneboldkamp (da) c
• Dutch: sneeuwballengevecht n
• Finnish: lumisota (fi)
• French: bataille de boules de neige (fr) f
• German: Schneeballschlacht (de) f
• Greek: χιονοπόλεμος (el) m (chionopólemos)
• Hungarian: hógolyózás (hu)
• Icelandic: snjókast n
• Italian: lotta di palle di neve
• Japanese: 雪合戦 (ja) (ゆきがっせん, yukigassen)
• Korean: 눈싸움 (ko) (nunssaum)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: snøballkrig m, snøballkamp m

  Nynorsk: snøballkrig m, snøballkamp m

• Polish: śnieżki (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: briga de bolas de neve f
• Russian: снежки́ (ru) m pl (snežkí)
• Serbo-Croatian: grudanje n
• Spanish: pelea de bolas de nieve f
• Swedish: snöbollskrig (sv) n
• Turkish: kartopu savaşı
• Ukrainian: сніжки́ m pl (snižký)