snow fort

English

snow fort (plural snow forts)

(chiefly northern US and Canada) A walled structure constructed of snow and used for children's wintertime play.
- 1990, Sue Lebrecht, "You need patience building snow fort," Toronto Star, 1 Feb., p. A23,
  Knowing the proper art of building a quin-zhee could have saved me and my friends from many snow fort cave-ins when young.
- 2008, Laura Dolce, "Seeing snow through a child's life," seacoastonline.com (New Hampshire), 3 Jan.,
  It wasn't a big lawn . . . but to us it was stadium-sized, with plenty of room for snow angels, snowball fights and the all-important snow forts.

snow structure