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Frame

   The frame is the skeleton of a snowshoe. Some snowshoes are made of plastic where the frame and the deck are one piece of plastic. The frame serves to suspend the decking material and acts as the seat for both the binding and the crampons. A strong frame is essential not only for the durability of the shoe but for its performance.
Decking Decking is the surface between the frame; effectively making the wearer's foot surface larger. This large surface gives flotation on snow. New designs give excellent flotation on snow. Decking can either be solid or webbed and can be made from a wide range of materials.
Carrying surface Another name for deck. See deck.
Binding The binding attaches the foot to the snowshoe. Bindings come in a wide range of designs.
Harness With the binding, the part of the shoe that attaches your foot to the snowshoe itself.
Cleat Cleats are short spikes or teeth added to the bottom surface of snowshoes. Cleats are designed to dig into icy snow using the body's weight. Cleats allow for better traction and a more confident stepping. Cleats are an important accessory and come as either a standard feature or can be purchased and attached later.
Crampon Crampon is used as a generic marketing term to refer to a metal device made with spikes for the purpose of providing attraction on snow and ice to a shoe, or boot.  Some snowshoe designs have a piece of metal with spikes mounted to the underside of the snowshoe-binding foot-pad at the ball of the foot area.  This metal piece is referred to as a crampon.
Traction Traction is the snowshoe's ability to resist slipping on icy surfaces. Casanova's
Bear Paws Snowshoe frame shape; short and symmetrically oval shaped snowshoe frame.
Beavertails Snowshoe frame shape; wide in the center and tapered in the back to a point, short tail.
Cross-country Snowshoe frame shape; long and narrow, with a short tail. Also called Alaskans.
Alaskans Snowshoe frame shape; long and narrow, with a short tail. Also called Cross-country. 
Floatation Referred to as snowshoe floatation; the ability to minimize the depth to which person sinks in snow while wearing snowshoes.
Rotation Refers to the movement of the foot in relation to the ground and the snowshoe; the up and down motion of the heel and sole of the foot.
Free Rotation This refers to the motion created when the snowshoer slides the snowshoe forward and then steps back down onto the deck of the snowshoe. This action is called free rotation.
Fixed Rotation This refers to the lack of motion between the snowshoe and the wearers foot while walking. The Snowshoer's boot is attached securely to the deck of the snowshoe.
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