English-Finnish translations for icebreaker

• jäänmurtaja
  Ajatelkaapa Suomenlahtea, jossa on 20 metrin ahtojää: siellä on kouluttamaton, kielitaidoton miehistö ilman venäläistä jäänmurtaja-apua yksirunkoisella laivalla talvella shortseissa.Just imagine the Gulf of Finland with 20 metres of pack ice and an untrained crew with no language skills and no help from a Russian icebreaker on a single-hull ship in winter in shorts.
• kevennys

Definition of icebreaker

• A ship designed to break through ice so that it, or other ships coming behind, can navigate on frozen seas
• A game, activity, humorous anecdote, etc., designed to relax a group of people to help them get to know each other
• A lively song and dance routine at the start of a musical

Examples

• The steel hulls of ice-breakers are much thicker than those of standard vessels
• The new college hallmates were awkward with each other at first, but after a game of charades as an icebreaker, they were laughing like old friends.

Related words

• servicebransch
• specialist/konsult inom servicebranchen