He has spent the winter playing grade cricket in Sydney as part of his bid to return to county cricket.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
This does not mean that the pace bowler has spent the winter at home by choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Increasingly ragged and hungry, they've spent the winter running from house to house in search of food and shelter.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
These should spend the winter underground and be dug up in spring.
Thompkins, Peter, Bird, Christopher Secrets of the Soil (1990)