Easter egg hunt

See also: Easter-egg hunt

English

hidden Easter eggs during an Easter egg hunt

Alternative forms

• Easter-egg hunt

Noun

Easter egg hunt (plural Easter egg hunts)

1. A common festive activity held at Easter, where Easter eggs are hidden outdoors (or indoors if in bad weather) for children to run around and find; this may also be a contest to see who can collect the most eggs.
   • 2004, Bill Clinton, My Life:

     I was a little chunky anyway, and slow, so slow that I was once the only kid at an Easter egg hunt who didn’t get a single egg, not because I couldn’t find them but because I couldn’t get to them fast enough.

Synonyms

• egg hunt (by ellipsis)

Translations

activity held at Easter where hidden Easter eggs have to be found

Catalan: caça dels ous de Pasqua Finnish: pääsiäismunajahti French: chasse aux œufs (fr) f German: Ostereiersuche f Icelandic: páskaeggjaleit f Italian: caccia alle uova f Polish: polowanie na pisanki n Portuguese: caça ao ovo de Páscoa Spanish: búsqueda de los huevos de Pascua

Further reading

• Easter egg hunt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia