walk the ice

verb, travel across the frozen lake on foot; see also drive the ice

“Dad would go to work in the shipyards. He worked on there all winter, walked the ice.”

“Since we’ve been here, we’ve walked the ice lots of times through the winter. We go south now, but we used to walk the ice when we lived here. And then we had a four-wheeler, and we had a toboggan on the back that we brought our groceries in and left all our cars over there. So it was good. But life’s good on Simcoe, we find.”