drive the ice

verb, to drive a vehicle across a frozen body of water; see also walk the ice

“I think it was my brother that had a little Volkswagen, and he and his girlfriend would drive the ice all the time. Well my father’s nerves were just shattered.”

“I’ve driven the ice a few times, but I had some scares too.”

“We were at night, and we hit a slush hole. We thought we were going down. We did that. It’s the last time I ever drove the ice.”

“Well in the wintertime you’d drive the ice, right from Simcoe over to Kingston.”

“I don’t think I’d ever drive the ice again. Again, no.”

“I was going to St. Lawrence College and we used to drive the ice. I had an old truck.”

“I parked just in front of the boat a little ways. But they were all driving the ice then, eh.”

“If you were caught driving the ice from then on, the police would fine you.”

“People’d come from Kingston and drive the ice. We drove the ice.”

“If they’d never drove the ice they wouldn’t have gone down either.”
“That’s true, but everybody drove the ice, right, back then?”