snow bunny

Snow bunny begins in the 1950s as a slang term for a novice skier, usually in reference to a woman. Bunny, here, may imply a sort of floppy inexperience on the slopes. Bunny has also been slang for an “attractive woman” since the 1700s … so there’s that.

This helped snow bunny quickly ride down the hill to a slang term for a woman who, as Green’s Dictionary of Slang memorably puts it, “frequents the ski slopes as much for the sex as for the sport.”

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In 1952, the first Winter Olympics were held since World War II and the Women’s Nordic skiing event debuted. This decade also saw the invention of special recreational skis and a commercial snow-making machine. Plus, the US was in a postwar economic and leisure bloom. Ski films were also popular, depicting beautiful mountains with good-looking skiers on them. All of this helped make skiing exciting, glamorous, fun, and accessible to a growing American middle class—including, apparently, hot chicks, er, bunnies.

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By the 2000s, snow bunny began to refer to any attractive woman, regardless of whether or not they were in Aspen. In black slang, snow bunny specifically became a term for a white woman. Bunny, here, continues to draw on its long applications to women, while the color of snow is white. Snow bunny sometimes specifically refers to a mixed-race couple where a black man is with a white woman as well as white women who are attracted to black men.