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Snow White's Shelter
Snow White's Shelter (Приют Белоснежки) is a private contact zoo and animal shelter founded in 2009 by Gennady and Irina Natekin in Shadyritsy village, Volosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, with reindeer, camels, moose, and nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation.
Snow Wife
Snow Wife is the stage name of Emily Leann Snow (born 2002, Houston), an American pop singer and former professional dancer. Known for "American Horror Show" (2023), the EPs Queen Degenerate and Bodyology, and queer, sex-positive hyper-pop.
Snow-Bound
Snow-Bound is a narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, published in 1866 under the subtitle A Winter Idyl, describing a rural New England family confined by a winter storm.
Snow-to-liquid ratio
The snow-to-liquid ratio (SLR) compares the depth of fresh snow to the water it yields when melted, letting forecasters convert precipitation forecasts into snowfall totals.
Snow-White and Rose-Red
Snow-White and Rose-Red (Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot) is Grimm KHM 161, tale type ATU 426, a literary tale Wilhelm Grimm derived from Karoline Stahl's 1818 The Ungrateful Dwarf, first printed in the 1837 third edition, distinct from Little Snow White.
Snowave
Snowave is a name used by several unrelated organizations: a surf and snowboard school in Kamchatka, Russia, an Italian surf and ski travel company, and a Japanese ski club.
Snowball (Animal Farm)
Snowball is the pig in George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) who rivals Napoleon for leadership and allegorizes Leon Trotsky. He paints the Seven Commandments, leads the Battle of the Cowshed, plans the windmill, is expelled by Napoleon's dogs, and is then scapegoated.
Snowball Earth
Snowball Earth, also known as the Snowball Earth hypothesis, is the idea that Earth's surface was almost entirely frozen from poles to tropics several times in the distant past.
Snowball sampling
Snowball sampling, also called respondent-driven sampling, is a non-probability sampling method in which existing participants recruit acquaintances, mainly used to reach hidden or hard-to-reach populations.
Snowbelt
Snowbelt: downwind regions of large lakes, chiefly the southern and eastern Great Lakes shores within about 100 km, where lake-effect snow roughly doubles annual snowfall versus inland areas.
Snowbird, Utah
Snowbird is a ski resort in Little Cottonwood Canyon in Utah's Wasatch Range, opened in 1971 and known for steep terrain, heavy snowfall, and its aerial tram.
Snowboard
Snowboard: sideways-stance board with bindings and metal edges used to descend snow; forerunner Snurfer (1965), Winterstick 1972, Burton 1977, Olympic sport since 1998 Nagano; camber, rocker, and hybrid profiles.
Snowboard construction and technology
Snowboard construction and technology covers how boards are built: a wood core, fiberglass, resin, steel edges, and camber or rocker profiles that determine grip and flex.
Snowboard cross at the Winter Olympics
Snowboard cross is an Olympic snowboarding discipline where riders race down a course of jumps, banked turns, and rollers in elimination heats, debuting at Turin 2006.
Snowboarding
Snowboarding: riding a single board with both feet strapped, descended sideways. From the 1965 Snurfer and 1972 Winterstick to FIS governance and 1998 Nagano Olympic debut; events include halfpipe, slopestyle, big air, snowboard cross, and parallel giant slalom.
Snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics (Sochi): ten events at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park; slopestyle and parallel slalom debuted; Kotsenburg, Anderson, Wild, Samkova, Podladtchikov won gold; United States led the medal table.
Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics (PyeongChang): 10 events at Phoenix Snow Park, 10–24 February 2018, 244 athletes from 29 nations; big air debuted, parallel slalom dropped; United States led with 7 medals.
Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Snowboarding at Beijing 2022: 11 events, 5–15 February 2022, at Genting Snow Park and Big Air Shougang; 230 athletes from 30 nations; mixed team snowboard cross debuted; Austria and USA won 3 golds each, Canada 6 medals.
Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's slopestyle
Men's snowboard slopestyle at Beijing 2022, Genting Snow Park, 6-7 February 2022: Max Parrot (CAN) gold 90.96, Su Yiming (CHN) silver 88.70, Mark McMorris (CAN) bronze 88.53, with a knee-grab judging controversy.
Snowboarding at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Snowboarding at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics: 11 events in halfpipe, slopestyle, big air, snowboard cross, and parallel giant slalom at Livigno Snow Park, February 5–18, 2026.
Snowboarding at the Winter Olympics
Snowboarding at the Winter Olympics is the FIS-governed snowboard program contested since Nagano 1998, growing to 11 events by 2026 and known for scrutinized freestyle judging.
Snowboarding culture
Snowboarding culture is the lifestyle subculture that grew up around snowboarding, shaped by skateboarding, surfing, and punk do-it-yourself ethics, and marked by distinctive dress, slang, and risk-taking.
Snowbombing
Snowbombing is a six-day music and ski festival held each April in Mayrhofen, a resort in the Zillertal Alps of Austria, drawing about 7,000 people to the season's end.
Snowcat
Snowcat: genericized term from the Tucker Sno-Cat trademark for tracked snow vehicles. Covers groomers (PistenBully, Prinoth), utility and passenger models, specs, grooming science, costs, and electric models.
Snowclone
Snowclone: a customizable formulaic phrase template (X is the new Y), coined 15 January 2004 by Glen Whitman on Language Log responding to Geoffrey Pullum; blend of snow cone + clone, from the Eskimo words-for-snow trope, now studied in construction grammar and NLP.
Snowden (film)
Snowden is a 2016 biographical thriller directed by Oliver Stone, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden, the former CIA and NSA contractor who leaked documents exposing the agency's global mass-surveillance programs.
Snowdon
Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), 1,085 m, is Wales's highest mountain in Eryri National Park, with six walking routes, a rack-and-pinion railway opened in 1896, the Hafod Eryri summit centre, and over 600,000 annual visitors.
Snowdonia
Snowdonia (Eryri) is Wales' largest national park, 823 sq mi in north Wales, home to Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon), 26,000 residents, 58% Welsh speakers, and nearly 4 million annual visitors; officially renamed Eryri in 2022.
Snowdonia Aerospace Centre
Snowdonia Aerospace Centre is an aerospace test facility at Llanbedr Airfield in Gwynedd, Wales, on the former RAF Llanbedr site, designated by the CAA for BVLOS drone testing.
Snowdrop (설강화) (South Korean TV series)
Snowdrop (설강화: snowdrop) is a 2021–2022 JTBC/Disney+ Korean drama, 16 episodes, directed by Jo Hyun-tak, starring Jung Hae-in and Blackpink's Jisoo, set in 1987 Seoul amid a dormitory hostage crisis and major historical-distortion controversy.