snowball fight

English

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

snowball fight (plural snowball fights)

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."

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)

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