Snowball

A snowball is a ball of snow, which is compressed with the hands or rolled over snowy terrain, where she is getting bigger by sticking new snow. This works best with wet snow (also called " sticky snow " ) because it acts sticky. It is, however, almost impossible to form of powder snow a snow ball or a ball ( or roller) to roll. It can also be built from larger snow globes a snowman.

Snowballs are mainly used to each other to throw with it. Snowball fights are particularly popular among children. Since 2007 in Winterberg a snowball fight World Cup. 2010 took the fourth place World Cup in a row.

Under the name Yukigassen exists an outgoing of Japan competitive sport that relies on snowballs.