Easter egg hunt

English

hidden Easter eggs during an 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
• French: chasse aux œufs (fr) f
• German: Ostereiersuche f
• Icelandic: páskaeggjaleit f
• Italian: caccia alle uova f
• Portuguese: caça ao ovo de Páscoa
• Spanish: búsqueda de los huevos de Pascua

Further reading

Easter egg hunt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia