ice fishing
noun
: fishing that is done in winter through a hole that is cut in the ice on a lake, pond, etc.
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In a couple of hours, families will go ice fishing on a frozen lake surrounded by epic, sky-grazing trees.
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Tyler Hicks, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
In winter and spring, Inuit residents snowmobile hundreds of kilometers over it to go ice fishing and hunt musk ox and seals, local hunter Brandon Langan told me in his living room, a black musk ox hide hanging behind him.
—Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
Book a private telescope session at the Yukon Astronomical Society’s Observatory, or try ice fishing beneath the aurora.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
And while a trip here can be extremely active with kayaking, whale watching, hiking, and climbing in the wilderness in the summer and ice fishing, dog sledding, and witnessing the Northern Lights in the winter—there are also plenty of opportunities for quiet reflection.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2025
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Tyler Hicks, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
In winter and spring, Inuit residents snowmobile hundreds of kilometers over it to go ice fishing and hunt musk ox and seals, local hunter Brandon Langan told me in his living room, a black musk ox hide hanging behind him.
—Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
Book a private telescope session at the Yukon Astronomical Society’s Observatory, or try ice fishing beneath the aurora.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
And while a trip here can be extremely active with kayaking, whale watching, hiking, and climbing in the wilderness in the summer and ice fishing, dog sledding, and witnessing the Northern Lights in the winter—there are also plenty of opportunities for quiet reflection.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2025
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“Ice fishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20fishing. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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