snowbird

snowbird

One who leaves their home to stay in a warmer climate during the winter months (as to avoid snow and other winter weather). Often said of retirees. Now that my parents are retired, they're total snowbirds—they leave New York after Christmas and spend the rest of the winter in Florida.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • bench warmer
  • benchwarmer
  • warmer
  • warmers
  • benefit
  • benefit by
  • benefit by (something)
  • benefit from (something)
  • beyond measure
  • elephant ear
References in periodicals archive
The snowbirds point out the the Canada-US economic relationship is one of the largest in the world.
Canadian snowbirds bristle at new US border fees
The $500,000 in mezzanine financing that Snowbird arranged for Bentec did not come cheaply.
Filling the GAP: doing "reverse mergers" into shell companies has become a major avenue for private companies seeking new capital, but established practices like PIPEs and mezzanine financing have their share of the action, too
Snowbird, twinned with Zermatt in Switzerland, prides itself on its off-piste powder snow and is full of challenging black runs for advanced skiers.
Holiday Hotspots: Slope off to super Snowbird
For 23 years, Miller had a driver's-seat view of that lifestyle: She was such a gregarious booster of it, Junction City RV manufacturer Country Coach outfitted her in a new rig each winter and made her its unofficial ambassador to snowbird destinations from Quartzite, Ariz., to Palm Beach, Fla.
FOREVER YOUNG
In 2001 Brooks and Stratford attempted the crossing with Snowbird 5, but the vehicle's floatation tanks were damaged while climbing back onto an ice ridge and the expedition was aborted.
The ultimate ATV: Snowbird 6 makes historic passage of Bering Strait; crossing water and ice. (Innovative Uses Of Horsepower)
Snowbird 6 triumphed in the Strait where many others--including the Ford Motor Company and Sir Ranulph Fiennes--have failed.
Explorers span continents. (exploration & discovery)
Snowbird must cope with moving ice on the 56-mile Bering Strait.
HITCH HITS ICE DRIVE
She said: 'The team did not have the necessary facilities in Alaska to undertake the repairs and they became worried Snowbird was not strong enough to make the journey.
Adventurers put frozen sea trek on ice for a year; Ice warriors held up for year by a broken hose
Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort is extending its ski and snowboarding expanse to 500 acres in the winter season of 1999-00 with the addition of a natural bowl, called Mineral Basin.
Sundance area expands ski lodge options
Crushing Rock is a snowbird of a different feather.
Lives converge at church of the street
That night, while wind howled through the frozen wilderness and sleet rattled against the roof and window panes, we sat in comfort beside the open fire and listened to stories of this big land of Santeetlah and the Snowbird Mountains.
The Joyce Kilmer Forest
This book is an anthropological study of Snowbird, a small Cherokee community in North Carolina.
Snowbird Cherokees: People of Persistence
THE 1988 SNOWBIRD REPORT: A DISCIPLINE MATURES Chairs of the departments in the U.S.
The 1988 Snowbird report: a discipline matures
As part of its strategic, on-going Clean Eating Campaign, Snowbird steers clear of allergens and is waging war against additives like sodium and phosphates.
Snowbird--the free from solutions specialist