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Snowshoes are basically like wearing tennis racquets (rackets in America) on your feet. They are designed to spread your weight over a larger area and help prevent you sinking too deeply into the snow. Ice skating shoes have a narrow blade beneath that is designed to glide the wearer over the ice (ice rink, frozen pond or frozen canal, etc). Neither footwear is interchangeable. Imagine trying to figure-skate while wearing shoe-shoes! Or crossing the Klondike in winter wearing ice skating shoes!

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