thick ice
Winter lake surface
Thick ice is ice of substantial depth, sturdy enough to bear weight or resist breaking.
The phrase appears literally in contexts of frozen lakes and rivers: The pond had thick ice by January.
It contrasts with thin ice, which is dangerous to walk on.
Unlike thin ice, thick ice rarely appears as a metaphor—there's no equivalent idiom for being in a safe or stable situation.
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- glacierSlow-moving ice mass
- floeDrifting sea ice
- sheetFlat rectangular material
- solidFirm matter state
Arctic · winter · below freezing · crust · slippery · cracking · blue · pond · lake · skating · figure skating · skating rink · hockey · icicle · permafrost · frigid · polar · polar bear
- iceiceberg, floe, skating rink, rink, polar cap
- ice fishingtip-up, tip-ups, auger, augers, fish house
- lake icefrozen lake, frozen lakes, freeze-up, slush, icebound
thick iceopen water
Unobstructed body navigable freely
slush · melting ice · ice melt · liquid water · meltwater
thick, ice, thicken, thicker, thickest, thickly, thickness, thickening, iced