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snowshoeing
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the practice or pastime of travelling or racing on snowshoes (def. 1).
Quotations
1789
Your success in killing [moose] depends on the number of people you have to pursue and relieve one another in going first (which is the fatiguing part of snowshoeing). . . .
1887
Snow-shoeing consists chiefly in tumbling down and picking one self up; and the wise snow-shoer will leave this latter task to some one else. . . .
1966
He was named King of the Trappers in Edmonton . . . defeating all comers at load-carrying . . . and snowshoeing.