The word "snowshoe" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you need to refer to a type of footwear made of wooden frames with rawhide lacings or webbing used to walk through snow. Example sentence: Our group went hiking in the mountains, and we were all wearing snowshoes to make the trek a bit easier.
Snowshoe the Pyrenees Snowshoeing is excellent cardio-vascular exercise and a great way to take in stunning mountain scenery in winter.
Other animals seen in the woods include deer, beavers, muskrats, minks, otters, snowshoe hares, red foxes, woodchucks, raccoons, and chipmunks.
The lynx (Lynx canadensis) is the principal predator of the snowshoe hare (see population ecology).
The snowshoe, or varying, hare (Lepus americanus), for example, undergoes an annual change in colour of its pelage, or fur, from brownish or grayish in the summer to pure white in the winter, providing effective camouflage.
The Native Americans have been remembered in many ways, however: in numerous place-names; in the sites of their camps and burial grounds; in ancient trails and water routes; in the use of the canoe, the snowshoe, and the toboggan; in crops such as corn (maize), beans, and squash; and in the continuing concern for the natural environment.
Wildcats were exterminated, but foxes and snowshoe hares endured, and the nearly depleted beaver has been reintroduced.
Stoat anal sac chemicals cause alarm in snowshoe hares.
The moose (Alces alces) and snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) in North America are examples, and their movement into the Low Arctic may be a consequence of a warming climate and an increase of willows and other shrubs, especially in riparian habitats.
Among the smaller mammal residents are foxes, wolverines, snowshoe hares, hoary marmots, lynx, and voles and lemmings and other rodents.
The hind feet are heavily furred, and all four feet are large in proportion to body size, a snowshoe-like adaptation that enables the hare to travel over snow.
Whether it is tobogganing, cross-country skiing, snowshoe-trekking or even cycling on ice, the many resorts in this winter wonderland of a country have plenty to offer.
