snow day

noun

US
: a day when schools and businesses are closed because a lot of snow is falling

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Schools with longer daily schedules, however, have enough extra hours saved to absorb the snow day and to keep the day off. Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 28 Apr. 2026 As the city’s school system has added new official holidays, that minimum has been increasingly difficult to reach, resulting in late last days of the school year and all but ending the traditional snow day. Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026 On the day Bridge visited, Alpena Community College had called a snow day, leaving four high school students enrolled in Psychology 101 without work for the class period. CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026 District 196 schools had a snow day Monday, as did other school districts in the region because of the weekend snowfall. Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 17 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for snow day

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“Snow day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snow%20day. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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