a figure of a person made of packed snow
"The children spent the afternoon building a towering snowman in their front yard."
A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
"The children spent the afternoon rolling giant snowballs to build a towering snowman complete with stick arms and a bright orange carrot nose."