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Snow water equivalent
Snow water equivalent (SWE) is the depth of liquid water that would result if a column of snowpack melted completely. It predicts spring runoff in the western United States.
Snow White
Snow White (German: Schneewittchen) is Grimm tale no. 53, first published 1812 as Sneewittchen, about a princess poisoned by her jealous stepmother. Famous from Disney's 1937 debut feature and Disney's 2025 live-action remake.
Snow White (1933 film)
Snow-White (1933) is a Fleischer Studios Betty Boop cartoon short directed by Dave Fleischer, released March 31, 1933, famous for Cab Calloway's rotoscoped "St. James Infirmary Blues" sequence, inducted into the National Film Registry in 1994, and now in the public domain.
Snow White (2025 film)
Snow White (2025) is Disney's live-action musical remake of the 1937 animated classic, directed by Marc Webb, starring Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot, and Andrew Burnap, with songs by Pasek and Paul; it opened to $43 million against a $270 million budget.
Snow White (Disney character)
Snow White is Disney's princess heroine of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the first American feature-length animated film, voiced by Adriana Caselotti and adapted from the Grimm tale Sneewittchen.
Snow White and the Huntsman
Snow White and the Huntsman is a 2012 Universal fantasy film, Rupert Sanders's directorial debut, starring Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, and Chris Hemsworth. Made for $170 million, it grossed about $396.6 million worldwide and scored 48% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) is Disney's first animated feature, premiered December 21, 1937 at the Carthay Circle Theater, directed by David Hand, costing about $1.5 million and grossing $8 million, with an honorary seven-dwarf Oscar.
Snow White and the Three Stooges
Snow White and the Three Stooges is a 1961 20th Century-Fox fantasy comedy, also called Snow White & The Three Stooges, directed by Walter Lang, replacing the Seven Dwarfs with Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe and starring Olympic skater Carol Heiss; it flopped.
Snow White with the Red Hair
Snow White with the Red Hair (Akagami no Shirayukihime) is Sorata Akiduki's Hakusensha shojo fantasy romance manga, serialized since 2007 in LaLa DX then LaLa, 27 volumes, 8 million copies, adapted by Bones into a 2015–2016 anime.
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.