A snowball is a ball of snow, usually made by compacting snow with the hands.
Snowball may also refer to:
Animals
- Snowball (cockatoo), an Eleonora cockatoo noted as being the first non-human animal conclusively demonstrated to be capable of beat induction
Business and finance
- Snowball (finance), an "exotic" interest rate derivative
- The debt-snowball method, a debt reduction strategy
Drugs
Food and drink
- Snowball (cocktail), an alcoholic mixed drink
- An alternate name for snow cone; a treat of shaved ice & sugar syrup
- Sno-ball, New Orleans version of the snow cone
- Sno Balls, Hostess-brand confection
- Tunnock's Snowball, a British sweet snack
Media, arts, and entertainment
Dances
- Snowball (school dance), a regional U.S. term for a type of school dance where females invite males (similar to a Sadie Hawkins dance)
- Snowball (swing dance), a variation on a dance in the style of swing
Film
- Snowball (1995 film), a 1995 family adventure film
- Snowball (1960 film), a British crime film
- Private Snowball, a nickname given to an African-American recruit in the film Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Snowball, the nickname of the character Willam Black from Kevin Smith's film Clerks and the Mallrats films
- Snowball, a rabbit in the animated film The Secret Life of Pets
Games
- Snowball (1983), a text adventure in the Silicon Dreams trilogy by Level 9 Computing
Literature and publications
- The Snowball (children's novel), a children's fantasy novel by Barbara Sleigh
- Snowball (Animal Farm), a character in George Orwell's political satire Animal Farm
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, a book about Warren Buffett written by Alice Schroeder
Music
- Snowball (album), 1989 debut mini-album by The Field Mice
- "Snowball", a song on Devo's album Freedom of Choice
Plants
- Abronia fragrans, prairie snowball
- Mammilloydia, snowball cactus
- Styrax hemsleyanus, Hemsley snowball
- Viburnum × carlcephalum, fragrant snowball
- Viburnum macrocephalum, snowball bush
- Viburnum opulus, snowball tree
- Viburnum plicatum, Japanese snowball
Television
- Snowball (The Simpsons), a cat character in The Simpsons
- Snowball, a gene-spliced intelligent hamster who is a recurring character in the cartoon Pinky and the Brain
People
- Jabez Bunting Snowball, former member of the Canadian parliament, and Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
- Oswald Snowball (1859–1928), Australian politician
Places
- Snowball, Ontario, a community in the province of Ontario, Canada
Technology
- Snowball programming language, computing
- Snowball (single-board computer), from ST-Ericsson
- Snowball (microcontroller), a microcontroller used in education
Other uses
- Operation Snowball, an international alcohol, tobacco and other drug use prevention program for youth
- Operation Snowball (test), the code name for a test using a large amount of conventional explosives to test nuclear technology, staged in Alberta, Canada in 1964
- Snowball Derby, an auto race held every December in Pensacola, Florida
- Snowball Earth, an epoch or epochs in which the entire planet was glaciated, or nearly so
- Snowball effect, a situation, event or the like is said to snowball if it continually grows in intensity or magnitude under the force of its own inertia
- Snowball sampling, a social research sampling method
- Snowball, a codename for the 1954 Soviet Totskoye nuclear exercise
- Snowballing (sexual practice)