snowshoe, snowshoeing, licker, bootlicker

While some love the thrill of downhill sports, others will undoubtedly prefer a more serene experience. (Like many ski areas in Japan, the Daisen resorts pipe pop music onto the slopes.) Snowshoeing is a perfect alternative. It’s good exercise and a nice way to be outdoors in winter.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2018/01/26/travel/snow-spirituality-tottori-winter-sacred-peak/#.Wm0eId-WbIU

• Right, that's got the usual wisecrack remark about snowshoes out of the way, now we can get on with things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowshoe

Good enough: The different ways to use ii in Japanese

BY MARK SCHREIBER

The discovery of an 18th-century book titled "The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes" leads our writer on a journey into the Japanese terms used for apple-polishers and bootlickers.

licker (plural lickers)

1. Someone or something that licks.

bootlicker

A person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner; a toady

A snowshoe is footwear for walking over snow. Snowshoes work by distributing the weight of the person over a larger area so that the person's foot does not sink completely into the snow, a quality called "flotation". Snowshoeing is a form of hiking.

snowshoe

NOUN

• A flat device resembling a racket, which is attached to the sole of a boot and used for walking on snow.

VERB

• no object, with adverbial of direction Travel wearing snowshoes.

  ‘we snowshoed down into the next valley’