Icebreaker

Alternative forms

 * ice breaker
 * ice-breaker

Noun

 * 1)  undefined A ship designed to break through ice so that it, or other ships coming behind, can navigate on frozen seas.
 * The steel hulls of ice-breakers are much thicker than those of standard vessels.
 * 2005: My father's Bonneville was cutting its way toward us like an icebreaker moving through my whole state of consciousness. — Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 11)
 * 1) A game, activity, humorous anecdote, etc., designed to relax a group of people to help them get to know each other.
 * The new college hallmates were awkward with each other at first, but after a game of charades as an icebreaker, they were laughing like old friends.

Related terms

 * break the ice

Translations

 * Arabic: كسارة جليد
 * Belarusian: ледакол
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 破冰船
 * Czech:
 * Danish: isbryder
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: glacirompilo
 * Estonian: jäälõhkuja
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: crebaxeos
 * German:
 * Greek: παγοθραύστης, παγοθραυστικό, παγοθραυστικό πλοίο
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 砕氷船
 * Korean: 쇄빙선 (碎氷船)


 * Latvian: ledlauzis
 * Lithuanian: ledlaužis
 * Luxembourgish: Äisbriecher
 * Macedonian: мразокршач
 * Malay: kapal pemecah air batu
 * Norwegian: isbryter
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ледоломац
 * Roman: ledolomac
 * Slovak: ľadoborec
 * Slovene: ledolomilec
 * Spanish: rompehielos
 * Swedish: isbrytare
 * Turkish: buzkıran
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: tàu phá băng


 * Finnish: kevennys


 * Swedish: isbrytare

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