A snowball fight is a physical game often played by young people in which snowballs are thrown with the intention of hitting somebody else. The game is very similar to dodgeball. Obviously, this activity can only be played during months when there is sufficient snowfall, although the comic-strip character Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes once saved a snowball in the freezer until summer with the intention of using it to hit Susie Derkins, though this is perhaps not strictly speaking an example of a snowball fight.

The activity is notable for very loose official regulation or constant properties, and can therefore only loosely be referred to as a game. However, a common snowball fight played for fun will often have these characteristics:

• The crude formation of "teams", two bodies of players throwing at each other.
• Snowballs are usually not thrown at the face, but rather at the body.
• Those in a fight often do not behave malevolently; a target is usually not viciously assaulted by snowballs.
• There is minimal physical contact, aside from perhaps wrestling.
• In contrast to other forms of fighting, there is usually no intention of bodily harm.
• The construction and use of snow forts.
• Ice balls made from hard ice rather than soft snow and inserting hard objects such as rocks into snowballs are considered poor sportsmanship and can cause an injury.

Current World Record

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3,745 students and alumni of Michigan Technological University along with locals set the World Record for Largest Snowball Fight on February 12, 2006.

See also

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• Yukigassen

External links

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• Showa-Shinzan International Yukigassen
• Yukigassen Nordic Championship (norwegian)
• European Championship

Children's games | Snow

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