snowgo

snowgo

English

Etymology

snow +‎ go

Noun

snowgo (plural snowgoes)

1. Synonym of snowmobile.
   • 1985, David Boeri, People of the ice whale: Eskimos, white men, and the whale, page 156:

     Then they cinched the angyaqs up to their treaded snowgoes with a towline and ran full tilt beside the boats, holding onto the rails, as the snowgoes raced full speed to the boat racks.

   • 2003, Stan Jones, White Sky, Black Ice, →ISBN:

     But what about the spruce branch that didn't seem to have come from any of the trees near Aaron Stone's snowgo?

   • 2015, Seth Kantner, Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches From Alaska's Frontier, →ISBN:

     Kneeling on snow, I'm bent over my snowgo, shivering and greasy.

Verb

snowgo (third-person singular simple present snowgoes, present participle snowgoing, simple past and past participle snowgoed)

1. To travel by snowgo.
   • 2008, Seth Kantner, Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska, →ISBN, page 166:

     Afterward, I snowgo along the dunes, following a maze of wolf tracks west into the deep snow of an old burn.