snowball fight

snowball fight

English

Depiction of a snowball fight, circa 1400 CE.

Noun

snowball fight (plural snowball fights)

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

     "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: снежкі m pl (snežkí) 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)

Japanese: 雪合戦 (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 Ukrainian: сніжки m pl (snižký)