Jack Frost

Icy window artist

Jack Frost is the personification of winter cold and frost, imagined as a sprite who paints icy patterns on windows and nips at exposed skin.

Parents tell children that Jack Frost visited overnight when they wake to frozen windowpanes.

The figure appears in poetry, songs, and holiday imagery as a mischievous but not malevolent spirit of the season.

Related

winter · cold · mischief · Sandman · rime · personification · fairy tale · winter solstice · winter wonderland · icicles · trickster · Saint Nicholas · chill · morning · windowpane · ice · numb · breath

Categories
Opposites
temperature/seasonal personification

Jack FrostHelios

Greek solar deity

Ra · the Sun King · Apollo · Summer · Vulcan

seasonal association

Jack FrostFlora

Roman deity of blossoms

Mother Nature · Demeter · Persephone · Ceres · Pomona

elemental domain

Jack FrostAgni

Vedic flame deity

Hephaestus · Prometheus · Vulcan · salamanders · Wildfire

Family

frost, jacket, frosting, jackpot, frosted, Jack, defrost, frostbite, frosts

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G