Associations to the word «Icebreaker»

Wiktionary

ICEBREAKER, noun. A ship designed to break through ice so that it, or other ships coming behind, can navigate on frozen seas.
ICEBREAKER, noun. A game, activity, humorous anecdote, etc., designed to relax a group of people to help them get to know each other.

Dictionary definition

ICEBREAKER, noun. A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation.
ICEBREAKER, noun. A beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere; "he told jokes as an icebreaker".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin