icecapaden.
/ˈʌɪskəpeɪd/, U.S. /ˈaɪskəˌpeɪd/ Originally U.S.
An event or entertainment that takes place on ice, esp. one featuring theatrical performances by figure skaters. Also figurative.‘Ice Capades’ was the name of a touring show that was active from 1940–95.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > other dramatic or variety performances > [noun]
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [noun] > other shows or spectacles
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1940 Monticello (Iowa) Express 25 Jan. 3/3 (headline) An ‘Icecapade’. ‘Oops!’ Bang! Down goes another amateur, and there goes another happy hope of being a second Sonja Henie.
1941 Time 10 Feb. 67/1 Another touring frostbite fiesta called Ice-Capades of 1941.
1963 Times 7 Mar. 3/6 Football..finally broke out of the strangling cocoon of snow, ice and mud to be rediscovered as a thing of excitement and calculated skill almost forgotten during the recent ice-capades.
1990 K. Vonnegut Hocus Pocus xvii. 140 And then his son Bruce..joined the Ice Capades as a chorus boy... And Bruce was so happy with the ice show.
2006 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 4 Feb. I prefer to be a couch potato and watch the icecapades from the comfort of my sofa.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1940