A Winter carnival is an outdoor celebration that occurs in wintertime.
Winter carnivals, or festivals, are popular in places where winter is particularly long or severe, such as Scandinavia, Canada and the northern United States. Most winter carnivals involve traditional winter pursuits such as ice carving, snow carving, ice hockey, skating, skiing and dog sledding.
Some notable winter carnivals include:
- The Winter Carnival at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan
- The Saint Paul Winter Carnival in Saint Paul, Minnesota United States.
- Quebec City Winter Carnival in Quebec.
- Winterlude in Ottawa, Canada.
- Bon Soo Winter Carnival in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
- The Saranac Lake Winter Carnival in New York.
- Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, China.
- The Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo, Japan.
- The Winter Carnival at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
- The Winter Carnival at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine
Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or carnival:
“People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“Looks like some carnival lost a good act.”
—James Gleason (1886–1959)