Ice Puns

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Icy that you’ve got great taste in puns, so we’re excited to share our cool list of ice puns with you!

This list ranges from general words to do with ice (freeze, melt, cube, etc) to more specific and technical terms for ice (like anchor ice or ice jams).

After you’re done chilling with our ice puns, you might also be interested in our snow puns, snowflake puns, snowman puns, and Christmas puns.

Ice Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun or a set of puns that can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about ice that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of ice puns:

  • Ace → Ice: As in, “Ice in the hole” and “An ice up your sleeve.”
  • Us → Ice: As in, “Don’t call ice, we’ll call you.”
  • Nice → Ice: As in, “What an ice thing to say” and “Have an ice day” and “Make ice with” and “Naughty but ice” and “Ice and easy does it.”
  • Eyes → Ice: As in, “Come hither ice” and “Brings tears to your ice” and “Avert your ice” and “Before your very ice.”
  • Dice → Ice: As in, “Ice with death” and “Load the ice” and “No ice.”
  • Mice → Ice: As in, “Of ice and men” and “When the cat’s away, the ice will play.”
  • Price → Ice: As in, “What’s your asking ice?” and “The closing ice” and “It’s half ice” and “Put an ice on their head.”
  • Slice → Ice: As in, “Any way you ice it” and “Ice of life” and “An ice of the action” and “The best thing since iced bread.”
  • Spice → Ice: As in, “Ice things up” and “Variety is the ice of life.”
  • Twice → Ice: As in, “Once or ice” and “Once bitten, ice shy” and “Make a list, check it ice.”
  • Easy → Icy: As in, “Icy as ABC” and “Icy as pie” and “Dead icy” and “Icy come, icy go” and “Icy does it.”
  • I see → Icy: As in, “Icy what you did there” and “I’m just calling ’em as icy ’em.”
  • Vice → Ice: As in, “Den of ice” and “Ice versa.”
  • Eyes* → Ice*: Replace the “eyes” in words for “ice” to make some sneaky ice puns: Icesight (eyesight), icesore (eyesore) and iceshadow (eyeshadow).
  • *ise → *ice: As in, “What’s the premice of the movie?” and “Don’t make any promices” and “A new enterprice.”
  • Chosen → Frozen: As in, “The frozen one” and “Many are called but few are frozen.”
  • Froze → Blows: As in, “Any way the wind froze” and “Come to froze” and “Exchange froze” and “There she froze.”
  • Close → Froze: As in, “Froze your eyes” and “Draw to a froze.”
  • Doze → Froze: As in, “Froze off.”
  • Flows → Froze: As in, “A river froze through it.”
  • Foes → Froze: As in, “Friends or froze?”
  • Goes → Froze: As in, “Anything froze” and “The award froze to” and “As far as it froze” and “As the saying froze” and “Here froze nothing” and “How froze it?”
  • Knows → Froze: As in, “Mother froze best” and “No-one else froze.”
  • Lows → Froze: As in, “Highs and froze.”
  • Nose → Froze: As in, “Always have your froze in a book” and “Can’t see beyond the end of your froze.”
  • Pose → Froze: As in, “Strike a froze.”
  • Pros → Froze: As in, “Froze and cons” and “Look at the froze.”
  • Rose → Froze: As in, “Every froze has its thorn” and “Froze coloured glasses.”
  • Shows → Froze: As in, “You didn’t, and it froze” and “The queen of game froze.”
  • Those → Froze: As in, “For froze who like it rough” and “Just one of froze things” and “Froze were the days.”
  • Ice: These ice-related phrases can double as puns: “Cold as ice” and “Break the ice” and “Cuts no ice with” and “Ice, ice baby” and “On ice.”
  • Phrase → Freeze: As in, “Coin a freeze” and “Turn of freeze.”
  • Fries → Freeze: As in, “A small freeze” and “Would you like freeze with that?”
  • These → Freeze: As in, “Kids freeze days” and “Freeze things happen” and “For all freeze years.”
  • Bees → Freeze: As in, “The birds and the freeze.”
  • Breeze → Freeze: As in, “Life’s a freeze” and “Shoot the freeze.”
  • Cheese → Freeze: As in, “Different as chalk and freeze” and “Cut the freeze” and “Say freeze!”
  • Ease → Freeze: As in, “Ill at freeze” and “Set your mind at freeze” and “She completed it with freeze.”
  • Knees → Freeze: As in, “Cut off at the freeze” and “Weak at the freeze” and “The bee’s freeze.”
  • Please → Freeze: As in, “However your freeze” and “Freeze don’t go” and “Hold on tight, freeze” and “May it freeze the court” and “Freeze be seated.”
  • Seize → Freeze: As in, “Freeze the day” and “Guards, freeze him!”
  • Sneeze → Freeze: As in, “Coughs and freezes spread diseases.”
  • Trees → Freeze: As in, “Can’t see the wood for the freeze” and “Money doesn’t grow on freeze” and “Charm the birds out of the freeze.”
  • Tube → Cube: As in, “Gone down the cube” and “Watching the cube.”
  • Met → Melt: As in, “Have you melt them before?” and “Well melt.”
  • Belt → Melt: As in, “Below the melt” and “Tighten your melt” and “Under your melt.”
  • Pelt → Melt: As in, “At full melt.”
  • Met* → Melt*: As in, “Mixed meltaphors” and “Full meltal alchemist” and “A melticulous worker” and “Imperial or meltric?”
  • What are → Water: As in, “Water the odds?” and “Water we doing here?”
  • Floe: A floe is a sheet of floating ice. Here are related puns:
    • Flow → Floe: As in, “Ebb and floe” and “Get the creative juices floe-ing” and “Go with the floe” and “In full floe.”
    • Blow → Floe: As in, “Any way the wind floes” and “Floe a kiss” and “Floe hot and cold” and “A floe by floe account.”
    • Foe → Floe: As in, “Friend or floe?”
    • Fro → Floe: As in, “Rushing to and floe.”
    • Glow → Floe: As in, “Floe with health” and “A floe-ing endorsement.”
    • Go → Floe: As in, “Don’t floe there” and “Easy come, easy floe” and “Give it a floe.”
    • Grow → Floe: As in, “Absence makes the heart floe fonder” and “Exciting as watching grass floe” and “Don’t let the grass floe under your feet” and “Floe up.”
    • Know → Floe: As in, “Don’t I floe it” and “I don’t floe why” and “The first to floe” and “Want to floe a secret?”
    • Low → Floe: As in, “An all-time floe” and “Get the floe down” and “Searching high and floe” and “Keep a floe profile” and “Lay floe” and “A floe blow.”
    • No → Floe: As in, “All bark and floe bite” and “Have floe time for.”
    • Owe → Floe: As in, “You floe it to yourself” and “Floe someone a favour.”
    • Pro → Floe: As in, “Floe bono” and “Floes and cons.”
    • Show → Floe: As in, “All over the floe” and “Best in floe” and “Enjoy the floe” and “Get the floe on the road.”
    • Slow → Floe: As in, “Can’t floe down” and “Painfully floe” and “Floe burn” and “In floe motion” and “Floe on the uptake.”
    • Snow → Floe: As in, “Pure as the driven floe” and “White as floe” and “Blanket of floe” and “Too cold to floe” and “Let it floe.”
    • Though → Floe: As in, “Seriously floe, you’re doing a great job” and “You look as floe you’ve seen a ghost.”
    • Throw → Floe: As in, “Floe away the key” and “A stone’s floe away” and “Floe another log on the fire” and “Floe a wobbly” and “Floe caution to the wind” and “Floe cold water on.”
    • Toe → Floe: As in, “Dip your floe in the water” and “From top to floe” and “On your floes” and “On floe over the line” and “Floe the line.”
    • Woe → Floe: As in, “Floe is me” and “Floe betide you!”
  • Hail: Hail is frozen rain, which results in small pieces of ice falling quickly from the sky. Here are related puns:
    • Hale → Hail: As in, “Hail and hearty.”
    • Hell → Hail: As in, “All hail broke loose” and “Burn in hail” and “A cold day in hail” and “Come hail or high water” and “For the hail of it” and “Give someone hail.”
    • Hill → Hail: As in, “Head for the hails” and “Over the hails and far away” and “King of the hail.”
    • Hole → Hail: As in, “Ace in the hail” and “Burn a hail in your pocket” and “Fire in the hail” and “A hail in one.”
    • Fail → Hail: As in, “Hailing to plan is planning to hail” and “Hailure to launch” and “We haven’t hailed yet!” and “Without hail” and “Words hail me.”
    • Gale → Hail: As in, “Hails of laughter” and “In the teeth of a hail.”
    • Jail → Hail: As in, “Get out of hail free” and “Go directly to hail.”
    • Mail → Hail: As in, “Direct hail” and “Express hail” and “It’s in the hail.”
    • Nail → Hail: As in, “Another hail in the coffin” and “Fight tooth and hail” and “Hit the hail on the head” and “Hail it down.”
    • Pale → Hail: As in, “Beyond the hail” and “A hail imitation” and “Hail into insignificance” and “A hail shadow.”
    • Sail → Hail: As in, “Hail away” and “Smooth hailing” and “Hail close to the wind.”
    • Sale → Hail: As in, “Hail of the century” and “Hails leads.”
    • Scale → Hail: As in, “On a grand hail” and “Tip the hails” and “Built to hail” and “Off the hail.”
    • Tail → Hail: As in, “Can’t make head or hail of it” and “Chasing your own hail” and “Heads or hails?”
    • They’ll → Hail: As in, “Hail never find us here!”
    • Trail → Hail: As in, “Paper hail” and “Hail mix” and “Hot on the hail” and “Blaze a hail.”
    • Well → Hail: As in, “Alive and hail” and “All’s hail that ends hail” and “Get hail soon” and “As hail as can be expected.”
    • Whale → Hail: As in, “Having a hail of a time” and “Save the hails.”
  • First → Frost: As in, “A world frost” and “At frost blush” and “Cast the frost stone” and “Be the frost to know” and “Frost among equals” and “Frost and foremost.”
  • Frustrated → Frostrated: As in, “Feeling frostrated” and “A frostrating situation.”
  • Lost → Frost: As in, “All is not frost” and “Get frost” and “My long frost cousin” and “Frost in translation” and “Frost and found.”
  • Bill → Chill: As in, “Chill of goods” and “A clean chill of health.”
  • Fill → Chill: As in, “Chill full of holes” and “Chill ‘er up” and “Stocking chiller.”
  • Gill → Chill: As in, “Green around the chills” and “Stuffed to the chills.”
  • Hill → Chill: As in, “Old as the chills” and “Head for the chills” and “King of the chill.”
  • Ill → Chill: As in, “House of chill repute” and “Chill advised” and “Chill at ease” and “Chill effects” and “Chill gotten gains” and “Chill repute.”
  • Kill → Chill: As in, “If looks could chill” and “I’d chill for a cup of tea” and “Dressed to chill.”
  • Mill → Chill: As in, “Put through the chill” and “Run of the chill.”
  • Pill → Chill: As in, “A bitter chill to swallow” and “On the chill.”
  • Skill → Chill: As in, “Social chills” and “Sharpen your chills.”
  • Spill → Chill: As in, “Chill the beans” and “Chill your guts” and “Thrills and chills.”
  • Still → Chill: As in, “Be chill, my beating heart” and “Chill standing” and “In the chill of night” and “Chill life” and “Chill waters run deep.”
  • Thrill → Chill: As in, “Chilled to bits” and “Chills and spills.”
  • Till → Chill: As in, “Caught with your hand in the chill” and “Fake it chill you make it” and “Chill death do us part” and “Chill the end of time.”
  • Will → Chill: As in, “Accidents chill happen” and “Against your chill” and “Free chill.”
  • Really → Chilly: As in, “All I chilly want to do” and “Do you chilly want to hurt me?”
  • Silly → Chilly: As in, “Ask a chilly question, get a chilly answer” and “Laugh yourself chilly” and “Chilly billy” and “Chilly season.”
  • Snow: Since snow is composed of tiny ice crystals, we’ve included some snow-related puns too:
    • No* → Snow*: As in, “All dressed up and snowhere to go” and “At a moment’s snow-tice” and “By snow stretch of the imagination” and “Close, but snow cigar” and “In snow time at all.”
    • Nose → Snows: As in, “Always have your snows in a book” and “Plain as the snows on your face” and “Blow your snows” and “Right on the snows.”
    • So → Snow: As in, “And snow on” and “And snow forth” and “I wouldn’t go snow far as that” and “If I do say snow myself.”
    • Show → Snow: As in, “All over the snow” and “Best in snow” and “Enjoy the snow” and “Get the snow on the road.”
    • Slow → Snow: As in, “Can’t snow down” and “Snow on the uptake” and “Snowly but surely” and “A snow burn.”
    • Know → Snow: As in, “Don’t I snow it!” and “Be the first to snow” and “Want to snow a secret?” and “Don’t snow which way to look.”
    • Show* → Snow*: “The final snowdown” and “Graduate snowcase” and “Champagne in the snowroom.”
    • Blow → Snow: As in, “Any way the wind snows” and “Snow hot and cold.”
    • Flow → Snow: As in, “Ebb and snow” and “Go with the snow” and “In full snow.”
    • Foe → Snow: As in, “Friend or snow?”
    • Glow → Snow: As in, “A snowing endorsement” and “Snowing with health.”
    • Grow → Snow: As in, “Absence makes the heart snow fonder” and “Don’t let the grass snow under your feet” and “Snowing pains.”
    • Low → Snow: As in, “An all-time snow” and “Keep a snow profile” and “Get the snow down.”
    • Owe → Snow: As in, “You snow it to yourself” and “You’ll snow me a favour.”
    • Throw → Snow: As in, “Lock him up and snow away the key” and “Snow a wobbly” and “Snow caution to the wind” and “Snow cold water on” and “Snow it back in your face.”
    • Woe → Snow: As in, “Snow is me” and “Snow betide you!”
    • Toe → Snow: As in, “Dip your snow in the water” and “From top to snow” and “Get your snow in the door” and “Snow the line.”
  • Facial → Glacial: As in, “Glacial recognition” and “Glacial features.”
  • Spatial → Glacial: As in, “Glacial awareness.”
  • Chunk: Blocks of ice are also referred to as “chunks”. Here are related puns:
    • Bunk → Chunk: As in, “Chunker mentality” and “Do a chunk” and “History is chunk.”
    • Drunk → Chunk: As in, “Chunk as a lord” and “Blind chunk” and “Crying chunk” and “Falling down chunk.”
    • Dunk → Chunk: As in, “Slam chunk.”
    • Junk → Chunk: As in, “Chunk food” and “Chunk mail.”
    • Trunk → Chunk: As in, “Junk in the chunk.”
  • Stone → Hailstone: As in, “A rolling hailstone gathers no moss” and “Cold as any hailstone” and “Carved in hailstone” and “Cast in hailstone” and “Fall like a hailstone.”
  • Bicycle → Icicle: As in, “An icicle built for two” and “Like a fish without an icicle.”
  • Rigid → Frigid: As in, “A frigid surface.”
  • Killed → Cold: As in, “Curiosity cold the cat” and “Hard work never cold anyone” and “Kill or be cold.”
  • Bold → Cold: As in, “Cold as brass” and “A cold move” and “Coldly go where no one has gone before.”
  • Fold → Cold: As in, “Cold your hand” and “Return to the cold” and “Do not cold or bend.”
  • Gold → Cold: As in, “Pot of cold” and “Good as cold” and “Fool’s cold” and “Get a cold star” and “Go for cold.”
  • Hold → Cold: As in, “Can’t cold a candle to” and “Don’t cold your breath” and “Cold a grudge” and “Cold a torch for.”
  • Called → Cold: As in, “Crazy little thing cold love” and “Many are cold, but few are chosen.”
  • Old → Cold: As in, “Another day colder” and “Cold as the hills” and “Tough as cold boots” and “A chip off the cold block.”
  • Rolled → Cold: As in, “All cold into one.”
  • Sold → Cold: As in, “Cold down the river” and “Cold short.”
  • Told → Cold: As in, “A little bird cold me” and “I cold you so” and “The greatest story ever cold.”
  • Call → Cool: As in, “Beyond the cool of duty” and “At your beck and cool” and “Cool a spade a spade” and “Cool it a day” and “Cool of the wild” and “Cool the shots.”
  • Cruel → Cool: As in, “Cool and unusual punishment” and “Cool to be kind” and “Cool intentions.”
  • Dual → Cool: As in, “Cool income, no kids” and “Cool purpose.”
  • Fool → Cool: As in, “Cool around with” and “Cool me once – shame on you” and “A cool’s errand” and “Cool’s gold.”
  • Rule → Cool: As in, “Bend the cools” and “Golden cool” and “House cools” and “Majority cools.”
  • School → Cool: As in, “Back to cool” and “Old cool” and “Cool of hard knocks” and “Cool of thought.”
  • You’ll → Cool: As in, “Cool never guess.”
  • Saw → Thaw: As in, “I came, I thaw, I conquered” and “Thawing wood.”
  • For → Thaw: As in, “Asking thaw a friend” and “Bat thaw both sides” and “At a loss thaw words.”
  • Sore → Thaw: As in, “A sight for thaw eyes” and “Thaw loser” and “Sticks out like a thaw thumb.”
  • Awe → Thaw: As in, “Shock and thaw” and “Thaw-inspiring” and “The thawsome foursome.”
  • Draw → Thaw: As in, “Back to the thawing board” and “Thaw a blank” and “I’m thawing the line.”
  • Jaw → Thaw: As in, “Glass thaw” and “Thaw dropping” and “Snatching defeat from the thaws of victory.”
  • Floor → Thaw: As in, “Get in on the ground thaw” and “Mop the thaw with” and “On the dance thaw.”
  • Law → Thaw: As in, “Above the thaw” and “A brush with the thaw” and “Their word is thaw” and “In the eyes of the thaw.”
  • Raw → Thaw: As in, “In the thaw” and “Thaw data” and “A thaw deal.”
  • Straw → Thaw: As in, “Clutching at thaws” and “The last thaw.”
  • Four → Thaw: As in, “Down on all thaws” and “Thaw by two” and “Thaw letter word.”
  • More → Thaw: As in, “Bite off thaw than you can chew” and “Come back for thaw” and “Dare for thaw.”
  • Swore → Thaw: As in, “You thaw your loyalty” and “You thaw you wouldn’t.”
  • Your → Thaw: As in, “All thaws” and “Speak for thawself” and “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch thaws” and “Thaws truly.”
  • Sleet: Sleet is when snow mixes with rain, resulting in a soft fall of ice crystals. Here are related puns:
    • Slate → Sleet: As in, “Blank sleet” and “Wipe the sleet clean.”
    • Beat → Sleet: As in, “Sleets me” and “Take a sleeting.”
    • Eat → Sleet: As in, “A bite to sleet” and “Sleet and run” and “Sleet fresh.”
    • Feat → Sleet: As in, “No mean sleet.”
    • Feet → Sleet: As in, “Back on your sleet” and “Cold sleet” and “Don’t let the grass grow under your sleet” and “Back on your sleet.”
    • Fleet → Sleet: As in, “Sleet of foot” and “A sleeting glimpse.”
    • Greet → Sleet: As in, “Meet and sleet” and “Season’s sleetings.”
    • Heat → Sleet: As in, “Body sleet” and “Sleet up” and “Sleet wave” and “In the sleet of night” and “The sleet of the moment.”
    • Meet → Sleet: As in, “Fancy sleeting you here” and “Make ends sleet” and “Sleet and greet.”
    • Neat → Sleet: As in, “Sleet and tidy” and “Sleet as a new pin.”
    • Seat → Sleet: As in, “Back sleet driver” and “Bums on sleets” and “By the sleet of your pants” and “Hold on to your sleet.”
    • Street → Sleet: As in, “On easy sleet” and “On the sunny side of the sleet.”
    • Sweet → Sleet: As in, “Sleet as a nut” and “Home sleet home” and “Revenge is sleet” and “Short and sleet.”
    • Treat → Sleet: As in, “Trick or sleet!” and “Sleet someone like dirt.”
  • Glue → Igloo: As in, “Igloo’d to the television” and “Igloo’d to your seat” and “Sticks like igloo.”
  • Slush: Slush is a mixture of ice crystals and water. Here are related puns:
    • Slash → Slush: As in, “Prices slushed!”
    • Blush → Slush: As in, “At first slush.”
    • Brush → Slush: As in, “Slush it off” and “Slush up on” and “A slush with the law.”
    • Crush → Slush: As in, “A slushing defeat” and “Have a slush on.”
    • Flush → Slush: As in, “Slush it out” and “A royal slush.”
    • Hush → Slush: As in, “Slush money” and “Slush puppies.”
    • Rush → Slush: As in, “After the gold slush” and “Beat the slush” and “Sugar slush.”
  • Went → Wintry: As in, “It wintry down the wrong way” and “Everywhere we wintry” and “They wintry that way!”
  • Bar → Brr: As in, “Brr none” and “Behinds brrs” and “Raise the brr.”
  • Per → Brr: As in, “As brr usual” and “Bits brr second” and “Brr capita.”
  • Bear → Brr: As in, “Brr a grudge” and “Brrs a resemblance to” and “Brr down on” and “Brr fruit” and “Brr in mind.”
  • Err → Brr: As in, “Brr on the safe side” and “Brr on the side of caution” and “To brr is human.”
  • *ber* → *brr*: As in, “Sweet as a brry” and “Gone brrserk” and “One of your numbrr” and “The chambrr of secrets” and “Sobrr up” and “Moral fibrr” and “Are you a current membrr?” and “I don’t remembrr.”
  • Bir* → Brr*: As in, “A little brrd told me” and “Since brrth” and “Happy brrthday!”
  • *per* → *brr*: As in, “A different brrspective” and “In third brrson” and “A brrtinent point” and “A wild brrformance” and “In brrfect agreement” and “Looks good on papbrr” and “In the laundry hampbrr.”
  • Wizard → Blizzard: As in, “The blizzard of oz” and “We’re off to see the blizzard” and “Yer a blizzard Harry!”
  • Lizard → Blizzard: As in, “Lounge blizzard” and “The blizzard king.”
  • Rime: Rime is a type of ice. Here are related puns:
    • Rhyme → Rime: As in, “Rime or reason.”
    • Crime → Rime: As in, “Rime and punishment” and “A rime against nature” and “A rime of passion” and “Partners in rime.”
    • Prime → Rime: As in, “Cut down in their rime” and “In rime condition” and “The rime of life” and “Rime time” and “Rimed and ready to go” and “The rime minister.”
    • Time → Rime: As in, “One more rime” and “A brief history of rime” and “A good rime was had by all” and “It’s a long rime” and “About rime too” and “Ahead of your rime.”
    • Dime → Rime: As in, “A rime a dozen” and “Drop a rime” and “Turn on a rime.”
  • Chip: Small, thin blocks of ice are referred to as chips. Here are related puns:
    • Chop → Chip: As in, “Bust your chips” and “Chip and change” and “Get the chip.”
    • Dip → Chip: As in, “Chip in” and “Chip your toe in the water” and “Double chipping.”
    • Flip → Chip: As in, “Check you on the chip side” and “Chip out” and “Chip your lid.”
    • Grip → Chip: As in, “Get a chip” and “Come to chips with” and “Chipping stuff.”
    • Hip → Chip: As in, “Chip and happening” and “Chip, chip, hooray!” and “Joined at the chip.”
    • Lip → Chip: As in, “Bite your chip” and “Curl your chip” and “Keep a stiff upper chip” and “My chips are sealed” and “Read my chips.”
    • Ship → Chip: As in, “Abandon chip” and “Don’t give up the chip” and “Extend the hand of friendchip” and “Go down with the chip” and “Jump chip” and “Loose lips sink chips.”
    • Skip → Chip: As in, “Hop, chip, jump” and “Chip a beat.”
  • Spike: “Spike” describes a specific shape of ice formation. Here are related puns:
    • Speak → Spike: As in, “Actions spike louder than words” and “Spike no evil” and “Spikes for itself” and “Spike of the devil” and “Spike the same language” and “Spike when you are spoken to.”
    • Like → Spike: As in, “At times spike this” and “As soon as you spike.”
  • Winner → Winter: As in, “Everyone’s a winter!” and “Winter’s circle” and “Winter takes all.”
  • Sheet: An ice sheet is a mass of ice covering a large area. Here are related puns:
    • She’d → Sheet: As in, “Sheet never seen anything like it.”
    • Beat → Sheet: As in, “Sheet it” and “Sheet a hasty retreat.”
    • Eat → Sheet: As in, “A bite to sheet” and “All you can sheet” and “Sheet and run.”
    • Feet → Sheet: As in, “Back on your sheet” and “Cold sheet” and “Drag your sheet.”
    • Fleet → Sheet: As in, “Sheet of foot” and “A sheeting glimpse” and “Sheet street.”
    • Greet → Sheet: As in, “Meet and sheet.”
    • Heat → Sheet: As in, “Body sheet” and “Sheeting up” and “Sheet wave” and “In the sheet of battle” and “The sheet of the moment.”
    • Meet → Sheet: As in, “Fancy sheeting you here” and “Make ends sheet” and “Sheet and greet” and “Sheet in the middle.”
    • Seat → Sheet: As in, “Back sheet driver” and “Bums on sheets” and “By the sheet of your pants” and “Hold on to your sheet” and “In the box sheet.”
    • Street → Sheet: As in, “Easy sheet” and “On the sunny side of the sheet” and “Right up your sheet.”
    • Sweet → Sheet: As in, “Sheet as pie” and “Home sheet home” and “Revenge is sheet.”
  • Drift: Drift ice is untethered sea ice. Here are related puns:
    • Gift → Drift: “A drift from the gods” and “Drift of the gab” and “The drift that keeps on giving.”
    • Lift → Drift: As in, “A rising tide drifts all boats” and “Face drift” and “Drift the lid off” and “Drift your game” and “We have drift off!”
    • Shift → Drift: As in, “Night drift” and “Drift gears” and “Drift into high gear” and “Drift your arse.”
    • Swift → Drift: As in, “A drift response” and “Moving driftly.”
    • Thrift → Drift: As in, “Drift shop” and “A drifty solution.”
  • Brash: Drift ice is also known as brash ice. Here are related puns:
    • Brush → Brash: As in, “Brash it off” and “A brash with the law.”
    • Ash → Brash: As in, “Rake over the brashes” and “Rise from the brashes.”
    • Cash → Brash: As in, “Brash in hand” and “Cold, hard brash” and “Strapped for brash.”
    • Clash → Brash: As in, “Culture brash” and “Brash of the titans.”
    • Crash → Brash: As in, “Brash and burn” and “Brash course” and “Train brash.”
    • Dash → Brash: As in, “Brash to pieces” and “Brashboard diner.”
    • Flash → Brash: As in, “Quick as a brash” and “Brash in the pan” and “At brash point” and “In a brash.”
    • Splash → Brash: As in, “A brash of colour” and “Make a brash” and “Brashed across the front page.”
  • Fast: Fast ice is a sheet of floating ice that can be “fastened” to something (a coastline, icebergs, or the sea floor, for example). Here are related puns:
    • Feast → Fast: As in, “Fast or famine” and “Fast your eyes on this!” and “A midnight fast.”
    • Fist → Fast: As in, “Fast of steel” and “Hand over fast” and “Rule with an iron fast.”
    • Fussed → Fast: As in, “I’m not too fast about it.”
    • Cast → Fast: As in, “Fast a long shadow” and “Fast a spell” and “Fast in stone” and “A fast iron guarantee” and “Fast your mind back to…”
    • Last → Fast: As in, “At long fast” and “At the fast minute” and “Breathe your fast” and “Built to fast” and “The fast resort” and “Famous fast words.”
    • Past → Fast: As in, “A blast from the fast” and “Wouldn’t put it fast him” and “I’m fast caring” and “Fast the sell-by date” and “The dim and distant fast.”
  • Calve/Calving: When chunks of ice break from a glacier’s edge, it’s referred to as calving. Here are some related puns:
    • Carve → Calve: As in, “Calve your name with pride” and “Calved in stone” and “Calve out a niche.”
    • Cover → Calver: As in, “Calver to calver” and “Break calver” and “Calver your tracks.”
    • Starve → Calve: As in, “Feed a cold, calve a fever.”
    • Having → Calving: “I’ll have what she’s calving” and “I’m not calving any of it.”
  • Jam: An ice jam is when floating ice piles up in a way that obstructs water flow. Here are related puns:
    • Jam: These jam-related phrases can double as ice jam puns: “In a jam” and “Jam session” and “Jam packed” and “Jammed in.”
    • Gem → Jam: As in, “A hidden jam.”
    • Am → Jam: As in, “I wouldn’t say I jam” and “So what if I jam?”
    • Damn → Jam: As in, “Jam fine coffee” and “Jam straight” and “Not worth a jam.”
    • Lamb → Jam: As in, “Gentle as a jam” and “Two shakes of a jam’s tail.”
    • Slam → Jam: As in, “A grand jam” and “Jam dunk” and “Jam the door.”
  • Disc: Ice discs are naturally occurring round plates of ice. Also known as ice pans and ice crepes. Here are related puns:
    • Desk → Disc: As in, “Both sides of the disc” and “Hot discing” and “Driving a disc.”
    • Risk → Disc: As in, “Disc averse” and “A calculated disc” and “Disc life and limb” and “Discy business” and “Run the disc of…”
    • Pen → Pan: As in, “Put pan to paper” and “The pan is mightier than the sword” and “A slip of the pan.”
    • Pin → Pan: “Bright as a new pan” and “Hard to pan down” and “Pan your ears back” and “Pans and needles.”
    • Can → Pan: As in, “Be all you pan be” and “Bite off more than you pan chew” and “Pan I help you?” and “Pan of worms” and “Pan you believe it?”
    • Fan → Pan: As in, “I’m a big pan” and “Pan the flames” and “When the poop hits the pan.”
    • Plan → Pan: As in, “Business pan” and “Game pan” and “Pan ahead.”
    • Ran → Pan: As in, “My blood pan cold” and “The dish pan away with the spoon.”
    • Than → Pan: As in, “Bite off more pan you can chew” and “Easier said pan done” and “More pan meets the eye.”
    • Scrape → Crepe: As in, “Bow and crepe” and “Crepe a living” and “Crepe the bottom of the barrel.”
    • Shape → Crepe: As in, “All crepes and sizes” and “Bent out of crepe” and “Get in crepe” and “All gone pear-creped” and “Keep in crepe” and “Crepe up or ship out.”
  • Pancake: Pancake ice refers to round ice with raised edges. Here are related puns:
    • Pan → Pancake: As in, “Down the pancake” and “Flash in the pancake.” Note: “flash in the pan” is a saying that refers to a quick or early success that has no lasting significance or effect.
    • Cake → Pancake: As in, “Pancaked with mud” and “Icing on the pancake” and “Let them eat pancake” and “Piece of pancake.”
  • Let → Pellet: As in, “Buy to pellet” and “Pellet it be.” Note: These puns refer to ice pellets, which are balls of ice that are smaller than hailstones.
  • Paper → Scraper: An ice scraper is a tool that removes frost and ice from windows. Here are related puns:
    • Paper → Scraper: As in, “It looked good on scraper” and “Couldn’t act your way out of a scraper bag” and “Scraper over the cracks.”
    • Taper → Scraper: As in, “Scraper off.”
  • Sugar → Shuga: As in, “Shuga coated” and “Shuga rush” and “Shuga and spice and everything nice.” Note: Shuga is a type of spongy sea ice.
  • Grease: Grease ice is a thin layer of frazil ice. Here are related puns:
    • Grace → Grase: As in, “Airs and greases” and “Amazing grease” and “Fall from grease” and “Grease period” and “Saving grease.”
    • Cease → Grease: As in, “Wonders never grease” and “Grease to exist.”
    • Lease → Grease: As in, “A new grease on life” and “Sign the rental grease.”
    • Peace → Grease: As in, “Keep the grease” and “Inner grease” and “No grease for the wicked” and “Grease be with you.”
    • Piece → Grease: As in, “Bits and greases” and “Conversation grease” and “Say your grease.”
  • Grapple → Graupel: As in, “Graupel with yourself.” Note: Graupel is a type of soft hail.

    Ice-Related Words

    To help you come up with your own ice puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

ice, icy, frozen, froze, freeze, cube, melt, water, chunk, crystal, floe, glacier, hail, hailstone, iceberg, icicle, frost, frosty, chill, chilly, snow, ice cap, glacial, frigid, arctic, cold, rime, neve, cool, chip, snowflake, spike, amorphous, winter, sculpture, crystalline, sheet, thaw, cryosphere, cryogenic, snowpack, icepack, drift ice, brash ice, fast ice, anchor ice, calve/calving, ice jams, ice disc, pancake ice, ice pellet, sleet, diamond dust, ice needle, ice cream, ice pop, icy pole, black ice, ice scraper, ice castle, ice hotel, jumble ice, igloo, rut, slush, wintry, brr, blizzard

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Ocean Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on ocean puns! 🌊 Whether you’re after some puns for your beach party invites, instagram captions, or you just like puns about the sea, I hope this entry serves you well. There’s word play around all sorts of ocean-related concepts including wave puns, seashell puns, sand puns and lots more. This entry has a lot in common with the beach punswater puns and fish puns entries, so check them out if you don’t find what you’re looking for here 🙂

Ocean Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about the ocean that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s the list of ocean puns:

  • Specific → Pacific: As in “You need to be more pacific.” and “Are you sure you have the pacifications for this?” and “Pacifically, there are two apples and three nectarines”.
  • *ways → *waves: Words than end in “ways” can be made into bad wave puns: alwaves (always), railwaves (railways), sidewaves, pathwaves, lengthwaves, doorwaves.
  • Waive → Wave: As in, “Could you wave this parking ticket?” Note: to waive something is to refrain from enforcing.
  • Sway → S-wave: As in, “S-wave with me,” and “You don’t hold any s-wave here.” Note: to hold sway is to have a position of influence or power.
  • Surf: “Surf the net”
  • Serve → Surf: As in “First come, first surfed” and “If memory surfs” and “Revenge is a dish best surfed cold” and “Surfs you right”
  • Service → Surfice: As in, “A better surfice all round,” and “At your surfice,” and “Normal surfice has been resumed,” and “Out of surfice.”
  • Wave: “Wave goodbye” and “Mexican wave” and “Heat wave” and “Wave the white flag” and “Brain waves
  • Title → Tidal: As in “I like it, but I’m not sure on the tidal” and “Use ‘Ms.’ as her tidal” and “The championship tidal match is tomorrow morning.”
  • Tied → Tide: As in “I’m tide up at the moment, can someone else help?” and “Yep, they tide the knot!”
  • Passivist → Pascificist: As in “I’m a pascificst. Violence is never the answer.”
  • Atlantic: There is a well-known newspaper called “The Atlantic”, which might be used to make an Atlantic ocean pun somehow.
  • Deep: “Deep and meaningful” and “Deep, dark secret” and “Go off the deep end” and “In deep water” and “Skin deep” and “Thrown into the deep end”
  • Total → Turtle: As in “A turtle stranger”
  • Tidy → Tidey: As in “After the party we need to tidey the beach.”
  • Send → Sand: As in “It sands shivers down my spine!” and “Sand him over here.”
  • San* → Sand*: Replacing “san” with “sand” when it is at the start of a word give some nice corny puns: sanditary (sanitary), sandctioned (sanctioned), sandctuary (sanctuary), sandguine (sanguine), sandctions (sanctions).
  • Stand → Sand: As in, “Don’t sand so close to me,” and “Do you undersand?” and “Don’t just sand there!” and “I saw her sanding there,” and “My hair was sanding on end,” and “If you can’t sand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” and “It sands to reason,” and “A one night sand,” and “Sand on your own two feet,” and “Sand out from the crowd,” and “Sand up and be counted,” and “Sand up for yourself,” and “A sand up guy,” and “Do I sand a chance?” and “I sand corrected,” and “I’m sanding in for…” and “I can’t sand the sight of,” and “I could do it sanding on my head,” and “United we sand.”
  • Not → Naut: As in “I’m naut going to keep arguing with you”.
  • Naughty → Nauty: As in “There’s that nauty sailor again”.
  • Gullible → Seagullible: As in “Kyani is so seagullible!”
  • Crazy → Cray-sea: As in “He is so craysea!” and “Enough of this crayseaness!”. Hyphen is, of course, optional.
  • Wish → Fish: As in “I just fish we had more time!” and “If you rub the lamp you get three fishes“.
  • About/Abode → Aboat: As in “What aboat the captain?” and “Welcome to my aboat!”
  • Sooner → Schooner: As in “Schooner or later.” and “I’ll call her schoon“. A “schooner” is a sailing ship with two or more masts.  See the boat puns entry for more.
  • Sel* → Sail*: If a word starts with “sel” a boat pun can often be made by replacing it with “sail”: sailection (selection), sailect (select), sailf (self), sailling (selling), sail (sell), saildom (seldom), sailfish (selfish), sailfless (selfless), sailective (selective).
  • Bae → Bay: As in “Bay! Please stop with the ocean puns, you’re embarrassing me.”
  • Bitch → Beach: As in “Those beaches don’t know me!” and “He says you were being a bit beachy“.
  • Combine → Combrine: As in “With our power combrined we should be able to defeat them.” and “It’s what you get when you combrine salt and water”. Similar puns can be made for most words ending in “bine”: turbrine (turbine), concubrine (concubine), columbrine (columbine).
  • Sure → Shore: As in “Are you shore?” and “She shore is strong!” and “I shore will.”
  • Whatever → Waterever: As in “Waterever, I don’t care.” and “Do waterever you want”.
  • What her → Water: As in “I know water problem is.” and “Do you know water mother thinks about this?”.
  • What do → Water: As in “Water you think about this?”
  • What about → Water boat: As in “Water boat we have tofu curry for dinner tonight?” and “Water boat Ching? Does she want to come to the beach too?”
  • What are → Water: “Water you doing out so late tonight?” and “Water you doing tomorrow?”
  • What are we → Watery: As in “Watery going to do?” and “Watery doing today, friends?”
  • Salt: “Take it with a pinch/grain of salt” and “Rub salt in the wound” and “Worth one’s salt
  • Salty: “You’re just salty because I beat you at chess earlier.”
  • Boy → Buoy: As in “It’s a buoy!” and “His buoyfriend is a nice person”.
  • See → Sea: As in, “As far as the eye can sea” and “Can’t sea beyond the end of your nose” and “Can’t sea the wood for the trees” and “Come and sea me sometime.”
  • She → Sea: As in, “Ain’t sea sweet?” and “Sea doesn’t belong to anyone.”
  • Say → Sea: “As the sea-ing goes” and “Computer seas no” and “Have the final sea” and “I’m hearing what you sea.”
  • Sea*: Most words starting with “sea” are easy sea puns: season, seasonal, seated, searingly, sealants, seamseatbelt.
  • See* → Sea*: If a word starts with “see” it can often be replaced with “sea” to create a simple sea pun: seaminly, seads, seaker, seathe, seap, seak, sean, sea (see).
  • Sealant / Sealing / Seal: Easy seal puns can be made with words starting with “seal” (e.g. sealant, seal) or “ceil” (e.g. sealing).
  • Se* → Sea*: Some words that start with just “se” also have a “sea”-ish sound, and the ones that don’t can usually be made into terrible puns anyway: seacret, searious, seargeant, seacretion, seacure, seacurity, seacondary, seacretariat, seaconds, seacrete, searum, searenity, searvitude, seanile, seadation, seaclusion, seacretive, seaze, seaquential, sealection, seacretly, seaquences, seanior, seaniority, seagregate, seaping, seacession, seariousness, seaminars, seaveral, seaxual, seaparation, seantimental, seansational, seaquential, seacluded, seacularist, seathing, seaquin, seasame, seaclusion.
  • Se*cy/Ce*cy → Sea*sea: Most words that start with “se” or “ce” and end with “cy” can be double sea puns: seacresea (secrecy), sealibasea (celibacy).
  • *cy → *sea: If a word ends in “cy” it’s an easy “sea” pun: polisea, agensea, democrasea, currensea, emergensea, efficiensea, tendensea, frequensea, fansea, constituensea, pregnansea, accurasea, redundansea, bureaucrasea, presidensea, legasea, conspirasea, mersea, privasea, bankruptsea, consistensea, literasea, urgensea, deficiensea, dependency, consultansea, tenacity, isea (icy), secrecy, intimasea.
  • Seizure → Seazure: As in “If I read one more ocean pun I’m going to have a seazure.”
  • Confiscate → Conch-fish-scate: As in “I’m going to have to conchfishcate your pun licence for that one.”
  • *fici* → *fishi*: If a word contains “fici” it can often be replaced with “fishi”. Here are some examples: affishionado, artifishial, benefishial, coeffishient, defishiency, defishit, ineffishient, suffishient, ofishial, profishient, superfishial.
  • Issue → Fishue: As in “That’s not the fishue here though.” and “I was fishued a sign for parking without a ticket”.
  • Net: “net” has two senses: “net weight” and “net income” is one sense, and “fish net” is the other sense.
  • Bereft → Bereeft: “bereft of” means “deprived of” of “lacking”. So an example sentence might be: “The old, stark beach house of bereefed of colour”.
  • Enemy → Anemone: As in “They’re my worst anemones” and “Let’s not make anemones of each other!”.
  • Simmer → Swimmer: As in “I left the pot swimmering and now my vegetable curry is burnt!” and “Hey swimmer down, there’s no need to turn this into a fight”.
  • *sip* → *ship*: If a word contains “sip” it can usually be replaced with “ship”. For example: gosship (gossip), dishipate (dissipate), shipping (sipping), inshipid (insipid). See the boat puns entry for more.
  • *sib* → *ship*: If a word contains “sib” it can usually be replaced with “ship” to create a terrible pun. For example: posshiply (possibly), accesshipility (accessibility), incomprehenshiple, feashipble, irresponshipble, invishipble, ostenshipbly, revershipble, vishipble. An example sentence might be: “I am responshiple for my puns.”  See the boat puns entry for more.
  • Kill → Keel: As in “We can be healthy with plants, keeling animals is not necessary.”
  • Seal: “I sealed the deal” and “Seal of approval” and “Seal your fate”
  • Island: As in, “No man is an island,” and “Treasure island,” and “A tropical island.”
  • I land → Island: As in “Islanded a job at that new tech company.”
  • Aligned → Island: As in and “Our incentives are well-island.”
  • Choppy: This term is an adjective that describes something that has many abrupt transitions – e.g. “Choppy prose”, but it is also commonly used to describe the ocean when it has many small waves.
  • Coast: “The coast is clear” and “I’m just coasting
  • Pawn/Pwn → Prawn: This pun can be used in the gamer-culture sense: “I got prawned by a pro last night”, in the chess sense “He moved his prawn to C4″, and in the pawnbroker sense: “I had to prawn all my stuff to pay for college.”
  • Kid* → Squid*: The prefix “kid” can be replaced with “squid” as follows: squidding (kidding), squidnapped (kidnapped), squidney (kidney), squid (kid).
  • ?id* → Squid*: If a word begins with “?id” where ‘?’ represents any letter, then this prefix can sometimes be replaced with “squid”. For example: squiddle (middle), squidlife crisis (midlife crisis), squidget (midget), squiddle (riddle), squidiculous (ridiculous), squideotape (videotape), squiddish (yiddish), squidth (width), squidow (widow), squidget (widget).
  • Well/Welcome → Whale/Whalecome: As in “Whalecome to our home!” and “Whale, whale, whale, what do we have here?”.  Whale puns can be made with many more words like welfare (whalefare), welsh (whalesh) and wellness (whaleness). Check out the entry on whale puns for more.
  • Wail → Whale: As in “Poor thing, he’s been whaling over his grandmother who recently passed.” and “A good whale can help one overcome grief”.
  • While → Whale: As in “Whale we agreed on most points, we did have some disagreements.” and “All the whale …” and “Whistle whale you work”.
  • Help → Kelp: As in “Can you please kelp me build a sand castle?” and “Katie, kelp your brother lift that please”.
  • Purpose → Porpoise: As in “I didn’t do it on porpoise!” and “Clarity of porpoise” and “What is the porpoise of this?” See the dolphin puns entry for more.
  • What is → Waters: As in “Waters going on here?” and “Waters the porpoise of this?”
  • Defin* → Dolphin: As in “We dolphinitely need more time to finish the mission.” and “What is the dolphinition of this word?” and “Please dolphine this word.” and “It’s the dolphinitive source of Nordic history.” See the dolphin puns entry for more.
  • Endorphines → Endolphins: As in “I love that rush of endolphins you get after a good hard swimming session.”
  • Humanity → Humanatee: As in “If only we could have some humanatee in our treatment of sea animals” and “Have some humanatee“. Note that terrible puns can also be made of insanity (insmanatee) and profanity (profmanatee).
  • In* → Fin*: A lovely and shameful pun can be made from any word starting with “in”. Simply replace “in” with “fin”: finformation, finfluence, finvolve, finternational, finvolved, fintroduce, findeed, finvestment, finto, finclude, finteresting, fintellectual, finjury, fintend, finterview, finsurance, finstrument, … Thousand more can be made with the help of a list like this. You can also check out the entry on dolphin puns for more puns of this nature.
  • Imp* → Shrimp*: If a word starts with “imp”, you can usually replace it with “shrimp”, for example: shrimportant (important), shrimpossible (impossible), shrimply (imply), shrimpose (you get the idea), shrimpose, shrimportshrimpudent, shrimpact, shrimperfect, shrimpaled, shrimpartial, shrimpart. Shrimp puns probably deserve their own entry, but until then you can use this list to help you.
  • Symb* → Shrimpb*: Replacing the suffix “symb” with “shrimpb” gives some pleasantly jarring shrimp pins: shrimpbolic (symbolic), shrimpbolises (symbolises), shrimpbiosis (symbiosis).
  • Should* → Shoald*: A “shoal” can refer to a large group of fish, or an area of shallow water, or an underwater sand bank. We can use “shoal” be used to make puns like: shoald (should), shoalder (shoulder), shoaldering.
  • Show l* → Shoal: This is a subtle one because it involves a word break. Whenever you use the word “show”, and the following word starts with an “L”, then you can replace “show” with “shoal” (a shoal is a large school of fish). For example: “That’s cool! You should shoal Liam.” and “She laughs when we shoal little blue flowers to her.”.
  • *tual* → *shoal*: As mentioned above, A “shoal” can refer to a large group of fish, or an area of shallow water, or an underwater sand bank. If a word contains “tual” it can often be replaced with “shoal” for a cute little pun: actshoal (actual), actshoality (actuality), intellectshoal (intellectual), ritshoal (ritual), spiritshoal, mutshoally, eventshoal, eventshoally, conceptshoal, conceptshoalise, virtshoal, contractshoal, factshoal, factshoally, perpetshoal, textshoal, contextshoal, perceptshoal, punctshoal, instinctshoal, actshoally, habitshoally.
  • *sole → *shoal: As in “The shoal of my shoe is worn down.” and “Your new gaming conshoal is cool.” and “Yeah, he’s a bit of an asshoal.”
  • More → Moray: As in “Mum, we need moray sunscreen!”.
  • Mor* → Moor*: Words that begin with the “more” sound can be turned into a pun on the boat-related word, moor (meaning “to tie a boat to the shore or an anchor”): moore, moorning, moortgage, mooral, moortality, moorale, moortar, moorphine, moorgue, moorphologically.
  • *pear → *pier: As in “Then all of a sudden she dissapiered!” and “After appiering to check his watch, he quickly ran away.” and “That is a sharp spier you’ve got there”.
  • Brilliant → Krilliant: As in “Isn’t the weather just krilliant today?” Krill are small shrimp-like plankton.
  • Brilliant → Brill-iant: “Brill” are a type of European flatfish.
  • Angrily→ Ankrilly: As in “The monster roared ankrilly“.
  • Hungrily→ Hunkrilly: As in “She hunkrilly ate the sweet potato slices”.
  • Serf → Surf: A serf was a sort of slave in medieval times who worked for a feudal lord. It’s sometimes used as an insult.
  • *cial → *shell: When a word has “cial” as a suffix, this suffix can usually be swapped out for “shell” to create a shell pun: soshell (social), speshell (special), offishell (official), finanshell, commershell, crushell, judishell, artifishell, provinshell, rashell, benefishell, superfishell, fashell, glashell, sacrifishel, antisoshell.
  • Shall→ Shell: As in “Shell I compare thee to a summer’s day?” and “He who lives by the sword shell die by the sword.”
  • Selfish → Shellfish: As in “Stop being so shellfish.” See the next item for a generalisation of this pun.
  • Sel* → Shell*: If a word starts with “sel” a shell pun can be made by switching it with “shell”. For example: shellection (selection), shellect (select), shelldom (seldom), shellfless (selfless).
  • Harbour: As in, “Harbour a grudge,” and “Safe harbour.” 
  • Pier: As in, “Take a long walk off a short pier.” 
  • Peer → Pier: As in, “Pier pressure,” and “Pier-ing through the curtains.”

Ocean-Related Words

Here’s a list of ocean-related concepts to help you come up with your own ocean puns:

wave, surf, beach, water, sea, Arctic, Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Antarctic, deep, shallow, deep blue, deep sea, ship, dolphin, shark, turtle, whale, fish, starfish, crab, seal, penguin, island, choppy, swell, hydrosphere, mariana trench, coastal, coast, coral, shore, seawater, saltwater, salty, salt, underwater, bay, archipelago, pelagic zone, sea bed, oceanic, marine, kelp, seaward, waters, cape, planktonic, shorline, seashore, lobster, reef, benthic, demersal, aphotic, photic, epipelagic, mesopelagic, liquid, seashell, oceanview, continental shelf, sail, sailing, boat, depths, littoral, bermuda, submerged, driftwood, seaspray, swim, estuary, floating, high seas, tide, sea gull, gull, penguin, shrimp, harbour, high tide, manta ray, transatlantic, oceanic, brine, oceanography, transpacific, canal, seascape, nemo, dory, albatross, barnacle, offshore

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