winter travel
Snowy season trips
Winter travel is journeying during the coldest months, when snow, ice, and harsh weather create distinct challenges and opportunities.
The phrase encompasses everything from holiday road trips to Arctic expeditions.
Winter travel requires special preparation—snow tires, emergency supplies, layered clothing—and may involve modes suited to the season: We planned our winter travel around the ski resorts.
The term also appears in tourism contexts promoting snowy destinations.
- sledRunner-based snow vehicle
- skisSnow-gliding footwear
- ski liftMountain passenger conveyance
- snowmobileMotor vehicle for snow
- ski resortSnow-sport vacation facility
snow boots · frostbite prevention · snow chains · salt truck · crampons · polar expeditions · Christmas market · hot springs · ice hotel · warming hut · emergency shelters · ice road · road trip · four wheel drive · thermal clothing · layered clothing · snowcat · cable car
- MongoliaGobi Desert, Inner Mongolia, steppe, Mongols, nomads
- travel seasonspeak season, high season, low season, off-season, shoulder season
- SiberiaLake Baikal, Baikal, Trans-Siberian Railway, Trans-Siberian, Vladivostok
- Arctic travelicebreaker, dog sled, snowmobile, kayak, ski
- Trans-SiberianMoscow, Vladivostok, Siberia, Lake Baikal, sleeper cars
- IditarodIditarod, Nome, mushers, sled dogs, huskies
winter travelsummer travel
Journeys during warmest months
summer vacation · summer holiday · beach vacation · off-season travel
winter travelstaying home
Not going out
hunkering down · staying put · hibernation · hibernating · settling in