Snowball

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Snowball (disambiguation) .

Pyramids made from stacked snowballs

Snowball fight around 1400 (Master Venceslao: January, detail)

A snowball is a spherical structure made of snow that is pressed together with the hands or rolled over snowy terrain, whereby it becomes larger and larger as new snow adheres. This works best with wet snow (also known as "cardboard snow") because it looks sticky . On the other hand, it is almost impossible to form a snowball or roll a ball (or roller ) out of powder snow . In addition, a snowman can be built from larger snow balls .

Snowballs are mainly used to throw them at each other. Snowball fights are especially popular among children. From 2007 to 2010 there was a snowball fight world championship in Winterberg . After a four-year break, it has been held in Gelsenkirchen's Veltins-Arena since 2014 as part of the framework program for the World Team Challenge .

Under the name Yukigassen there is a competitive sport originating in Japan that is based on snowball fights . In the small town of Severance , Colorado , throwing snowballs was banned for nearly a hundred years.

See also

• Snowball effect
• Snow ring

Web links

Commons : Snowballs and Snowball Fights  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Snowball  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wiktionary: Snowball fight  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Snowball Fight World Cup at Schalke! schalke04.de, October 16, 2014
2. ↑ USA: Nine-year-old fights for the right to a snowball fight. In: Spiegel Online . December 5, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018 .