100 Winter Instagram Captions for Your Coolest Photos This Season

There's a lot to like about these winter-inspired captions, quotes, and lyrics.

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Whether you're planning to hit the slopes or curl up in front of the fire this season, no one would blame you for wanting to document your magical moments on social media. Luckily, there's no shortage of good wintertime quotes, lyrics, and phrases to caption your next post. Browse our ultimate guide to the best winter Instagram captions, so you can spend less time thinking up the perfect pun and more time enjoying your winter wonderland.

Cute Winter Instagram Captions

Every day I'm shovelin'.

Love at frost sight.

'Tis the season to be freezin'.

Eat, drink, and be cozy.

I'm snow excited it's finally wintertime!

Ice to see you!

Hibernation mode: activated.

Does shivering count as exercise?

I wasn't made for winter.

Wake me up when it's summer.

License to chill.

Keep calm and winter on.

It's officially hot cocoa season.

Outside looks like a real-life snow globe.

Say "freeze!"

I glove winter.

Hot chocolate is like a hug from the inside.

Snow days are the best days.

Sweater weather is better together.

The snuggle is real.

Taking time this winter to really chill.

I only have ice for you.

Quotes That Make Perfect Winter Instagram Captions

"Winter is coming." — "Game of Thrones"

"Skiing is the next best thing to having wings." — Oprah Winfrey

"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart." — Victor Hugo

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness." — John Steinbeck

"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." — Anton Chekhov

"Children of winter never grow old." — Anonymous

"Some people are worth melting for." — "Frozen"

"Winter is not a season; it's a celebration." — Anamika Mishra

"Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers." — Kahlil Gibran

"I smell snow." — "Gilmore Girls"

"When snow falls, nature listens." — Antoinette van Kleeff

"When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels." — Anonymous

"Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person." — Sylvia Plath

"Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood." — Andy Goldsworthy

Snow-Related Winter Instagram Captions and Quotes

This weather is snow joke!

The snow must go on.

Snow much fun!

My snowman won best in snow.

Up to snow good.

There's snow place like home for the holidays.

I love you snow much.

No day like a snow day.

No day like a snow day.

Snow angel crossing.

Up to snow good.

Brrrrring on the snow!

Snow place like [location].

The snow is fallin', and the slopes are callin'.

Snow where I'd rather be!

Snow happens, but a crackling fire helps.

Song Lyrics for Winter Instagram Captions

"I'll stop the world and melt with you." — Modern English, "I Melt With You"

"Do you want to build a snowman?" — Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" from "Frozen"

"Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes/ Silver-white winters that melt into springs / These are a few of my favorite things." — Rodgers and Hammerstein, "My Favorite Things" from "The Sound of Music"

"The cold never bothered me anyway." — Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, "Let it Go" from "Frozen"

"Jack Frost nipping at your nose." — Mel Tormé, "The Christmas Song"

"In winter it's a marshmallow world." — Dean Martin, "A Marshmallow World"

"We're happy tonight, walking in a winter wonderland." — Richard Himber, "Winter Wonderland"

"Since we've no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!" — Sammy Cahn, "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"

"Ice, ice baby." — Vanilla Ice

"What do I care how much it may storm, I've got my love to keep me warm." — Irving Berlin, "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"

"Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling, 'Yoo hoo!'" — The Ronettes, "Sleigh Ride"

"Oh, to see a mountain covered with a quilt of snow." — Bing Crosby, "Snow"

"Just imagine that we're laughing in our cabin, chillin' by the fireside." — Ariana Grande, "Winter Things"

"Where the treetops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow." — Bing Crosby, "White Christmas"

"And the snow is coming down on our New England town." — Fountains of Wayne, "Valley Winter Song"

"Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder where it's so white as snow." — Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Snow (Hey, Oh)"

"And on the windowpane outside, a new world made of snow." — Enya, "Amid the Falling Snow"

"Is this the better way to spend the day? Keeping the winter at bay." — The Decemberists, "January Hymn"

"Grab your baby, hit the road, y'all need a holiday, y'all need a holiday." —Lindsey Buckingham, "Holiday Road"

"'Winter's love's spreading everywhere.'" — Meghan Trainor, "I'll Be Home"

"And everything is icy and blue, and you would be there, too." — Taylor Swift, "Christmas Tree Farm"

"It's the most beautiful time of the year. Lights fill the streets, spreading so much cheer." — Justin Bieber, "Mistletoe"

"It's cold outside, but it's warm in here and that's the only thing I want this year." — Cher, "DJ Play A Christmas Song"

"Lights on the trees under fallen snow, you get a bit closer when the winter's cold." — Ava Max, "Christmas Without You"

"We've been waiting all year for this night when the snow is glistening on the trees outside." —*NSYNC, "Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays"

Winter Instagram Captions for Cold Weather Activities

Skiing Instagram Captions

(Black) diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Rise and glide.

Sleigh all day.

I think we've peaked.

It's all downhill from here.

With great powder comes great responsibility.

They say you can't buy happiness, but you can buy a lift pass and skis, so that's basically the same thing.

Ice Skating Instagram Captions

Have an ice day!

'Tis the season to go ice skating.

Figure-eighting my way through winter.

Ice skate like nobody's watching.

Snowboarding Instagram Captions

First tracks, fresh snow, here we go.

Get the shred out.

Powder paradise.

Goggles on, worries off.

Silver trails.

A photo dump for a snow dump.

Winter Hiking Instagram Captions

Hiking in a winter wonderland.

It's only cold if you're standing still.

Life in a snow globe.

Let it snow.

Yeti hunting.

Updated by
Jamie Ditaranto
Jamie Ditaranto is a Brazilian-American journalist who has traveled to all seven continents in search of the best trip ever. Her work has been published in National Geographic, Condé Nast Traveler, USA Today, Business Insider, and more.

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