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* ''Series/FraggleRock'' had an episode titled "The Bells of Fraggle Rock". This invented holiday was surprisingly well-handled. Furthermore, the episode was very thought-provoking for a (de-facto) ChristmasEpisode: Gobo searched his maps for the location of the legendary Great Bell at the Heart of Fraggle Rock, then set off just before the Festival of the Bells on a quest to find the Great Bell and bring it back to show the other Fraggles and prove that the ''literal'' meaning of the holiday is true. The other Fraggles promised to wait for him, so they could ring the bells together, but came to regret this decision as the cold encroached and the Rock began to freeze over. At the end of Gobo's quest, he found a seasonally heartwarming [[Main/AnAesop Aesop]]. The Festival of the Bells was also mentioned in the crossover special ''Film/AMuppetFamilyChristmas'', where it was explicitly described as the Fraggles' winter solstice holiday and likened to Christmas.

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld'': Mario and Luigi invent "Cave Christmas" for Dome City because [[ChristmasInJuly it's August]] and the cavepeople don't know what Christmas is.

* Quoting the listing for ''[[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda The Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special]]'': Po learns that his duties as Dragon Warrior will prevent him from spending his favorite holiday, the Winter Feast, with his family.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' has a short special called ''WesternAnimation/GiftOfTheNightFury'', in which the Vikings celebrate "Snoggletog" by decorating a big green tree, hanging up lights, exchanging gifts, and so on. Astrid decides she wants to start some new holiday traditions. Among other things, she serves a drink called Yak-Nog. The need to make up a new holiday for this franchise seems a bit odd, since it's an historical fact that the Vikings celebrated Yule or the Winter Solstice long before the Nordic countries were christened.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' has a short special called ''Gift of the Night Fury'', in which the Vikings celebrate “Snoggletog” by decorating a big green tree, hanging up lights, exchanging gifts, and so on. Astrid decides she wants to start some new holiday traditions. Among other things, she serves a drink called Yak-Nog. The need to make up a new holiday for this franchise seems a bit odd, since it's an historical fact that the Vikings celebrated Yule or the Winter Solstice long before the Nordic countries were christened.

* Episode 7 of ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'' features the ''Fiesta des Lumiéres'', which is pretty much a Japanese Obon festival [[MemeticMutation in a French-speaking Spanish town in Switzerland]].
* One of the ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' films depicts a Juraian holiday called "Startika" which, although it is celebrated in the middle of June, bears a suspicious resemblance to Christmas, at least [[UsefulNotes/ChristmasInJapan as celebrated by the Japanese]]. Somewhat subverted because A: the festival has nothing to do with exchanging gifts,[[note]]The big celebration is that they eat 'shou-jen' for the night (vegetarian),[[/note]] and B: actual Christmas is also celebrated in the same story.

** Another episode from the same saga has a HalloweenEpisode about a "Gourgeist Festival", where the characters dress up as Pokemon at night and trade candies with each other.

* ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'': The characters celebrate a holiday with strong resemblances to Christmas (or some sort of solstice festival) by bringing a green pine tree into their house during the depths of winter.
** Phoney even lampshades this trope;
--->'''Phoney:''' Different ''reasons''... Different ''names''... It all comes down to th' ''same thing''-- ''Business'' picks ''up'', an' ''I'' make ''A lotta money!''

* ''DCU Holiday Special '09'' revealed that in the future of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes, all the midwinter festivals have been merged into a single event, simply called Holiday.
* ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'': The Metan counterpart of Christmas is called the Day of Bones, and celebrates the day, 2500 years ago, when a "prophet, or son of the Godhead, or whatever you want to call him" dug up the bones of the dead and brought them back to life.
-->'''Shade''':In older days folk would dig up the actual bones of relatives and hang them in their parlors festooned with garlands of flowers and tinsel. Nowadays the skeletons are plastic, usually filled with a special liquid that glows with bright colors. Sometimes the plastic skeletons play tunes. Some people think the Day of Bones is becoming too commercial. We’re forgetting [[TrueMeaningOfChristmas the real meaning]] of digging up our ancestors' skeletons.

* ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper'': According to the story "Runaway", the Norts celebrate a festival called Feinkart. We don't learn much about it, and even the viewpoint Nort runaway isn't sure what it actually celebrates, but since the story appears in the ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' Christmas Special 2023 and ends with Rogue wishing the kid "Frolikke Feinkart" (clearly [[LanguageDrift derived]] from "fröhliche", as in "Fröhliche Weihnachten"), it's presumably this trope. The name itself would seem to translate as "fine card", possibly in reference to Christmas cards.

* In the ''Fanfic/ThisTimeRound'' fic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/316460/1/A-TDF-Christmas-TTR "A TDF Christmas,"]] the Trakenite equivalent is Keeper's Day. This gets a ContinuityNod in the later [[http://www.ttrarchive.com/ncc1.html "Nyssa's Christmas Carol."]]
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4741006/1/Shadow-Realm-Holiday Shadow Realm: Holiday]]'', is a one-chapter fic set in an AlternateUniverse where [[Anime/YuGiOh Duel Spirits]] live; while there is no Christmas in this world (justified, as there is nothing similar in their history), the fic shows the residents celebrating All Shadow's Beginning, which is similar.
* In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', the Smurfs celebrate Redemption Day, which is the closest thing to Ash Wednesday for them as far as religious celebrations go. They also celebrate the Harvest Feast, which is their version of UsefulNotes/ThanksgivingDay, although since the Smurfs are vegetarians, a pastry dish called a cornucopia is substituted for turkey. And in a few stories before the Smurfs encountered humans on a regular basis, they celebrated the Winter Solstice instead of Christmas, in which they recount the CreationMyth of how Mother Nature and Father Time created the universe.

* In ''Fanfic/DidIMakeTheMostOfLovingYou'', one chapter sees the Adamas and Kara celebrating Saturnalia, which appears to be the Twelve Colonies’ equivalent of Christmas.

* ''Fanfic/TheHungerGamesPrequelCollection'':
** The main series has a companion piece called ''Twelve Tidings of Panem'', a collection of one shots about winter in the districts. Six of these stories feature characters from the main series celebrating their respective districts' winter festivals, some of which are clearly rooted in Christmas traditions. The names of these winter festivals are Yuletide (District 1), New Year (District 2), the Seabreeze Times (District 4), the Returning of the Light (District 5), Wintertide (District 7) and Bobbin Day (District 8).
** Another companion piece, ''Carol of the Allies'', reveals that District 3 celebrates a winter festival called Lighting.
* In ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni'' Mewni celebrates holidays that correspond to both Earth holidays and former queens: for example, St. Eclipsa's Day is their equivalent of Halloween, while St. Febe's Day is their Valentines Day. The canon Stump Day is also referenced: [[spoiler:namely, that the Stump found out the hard way not to mess with Helia, the Light of Power.]]

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', Drax says that his father would recount the story of how he impregnated Drax's mother every winter solstice.

* In 1954 Creator/CSLewis wrote a text called ''[[http://www.getmorphed.com/2003/12/xmas-and-christmas.html Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus,]]'' in which the people of [[SdrawkcabName Niatirb]] celebrate ''two'' holidays: [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything A secular one with parties and gifts and a religious one in temples]]. Creator/{{Herodotus}} concludes that "Exmas" (the commercial racket) and "Crissmas" (the religious festival) are two entirely distinct festivals that just happen to fall on the same day. Notably averted in [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia]], specifically ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', which has Father Christmas -- the old-fashioned, bad ass half-pagan-nature-god version -- and the White Witch's rule is said to lead to Narnia forever being in a state of 'always winter, and never Christmas'. (The name "Christmas" was quite possibly introduced to Narnia by King Frank and Queen Helen, who used to be working-class Brits before becoming Narnia's first monarchs.)

* Winterfair on the planet Barrayar in Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's [[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Miles Vorkosigan]] books, which involves gift-giving and family get-togethers. Complete with a CaptainErsatz SantaClaus, Father Frost. (Or not so ersatz. Father Frost is the Russian Santa equivalent, in what passes for real life, and one of the founding ethnicities of Barrayar is Russian.) The Barrayarans are non-theists (if a bit superstitious) and there's no spiritual aspect. The Emperor's birthday celebrations are at roughly the UsefulNotes/ThanksgivingDay time of year, also -- at least for the current emperor.
* Another example is Erastide, winter solstice festival and the most important holiday in ''Literature/TheBelgariad''. It includes a [[strike:Christmas pageant]] Erastide play, with masked family members reenacting the roles of the Seven Gods. According to ''Belgarath the Sorcerer'' it's mainly celebrated in Senderia -- since they don't have a single patron god like the other kingdoms -- and while it's supposed to be the day the Seven Gods created the world, it's actually an arbitrary date.

* Creator/AnneBishop's ''Literature/BlackJewels'' trilogy has Winsol (presumably meaning "winter solstice"), an obvious stand-in for Christmas, complete with tree and gifts.
* Many of the ExpandedUniverse novels in the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe mention a holiday known as "Emperor's Day" that appears very similar to Christmas. Of course, considering the Emperor has supposedly [[JuliusBeethovenDaVinci been several influential people throughout history]], there's a reasonable chance it actually ''is'' Christmas.
* A fairly common substitute in fantasy novels is some variety of midwinter or solstice festival. The ''Literature/TortallUniverse'' books by Tamora Pierce feature feasting and gift-giving at midwinter and the Kushiel's Legacy books by Jacqueline Carey have masked balls on the Longest Night -- which are lampshaded in the first book by saying that the tradition pre-dates the coming of Elua, who found it so charming and amusing that he kept it around.

* The Literature/DeptfordMice -- from the Creator/RobinJarvis trilogy of that name -- celebrate "Yule" in the winter, named after the pagan/Germanic solstice festival.

* Up until they created Kaya, a Nez-Perce Indian character from 1764, each of the ''Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection'' characters had a Christmas story as a part of her book series. Since Kaya obviously wouldn't have celebrated Christmas, living before the Nez-Perce had much contact with Europeans, they gave her a story about "giving" as her obligatory "holiday" book.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has the Feast of Lights. The name also bears a noticeable resemblance to Hanukah, the Festival of Lights.
* The AlternativeCalendar in the appendices of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' shows that the hobbits also celebrate Yuletide, or at least that's how Creator/JRRTolkien [[DirectLineToTheAuthor chose to translate the name of their midwinter holiday]].
* In ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'', the people of Krynn celebrate Yule (as a Christmas stand-in, Yule being an archaic name for Christmas), Harvest-Come (Halloween, complete with carving faces onto gourds), the Festival of the Eye (also Halloween, when children dress up and go door-to-door for cookies) and Spring Dawning (Easter).
* One of the ''Literature/GarrettPI'' novels mentions White Day, a fantasy-world counterpart to Valentine's Day. Different in that it's a custom to give boxes of candy to one's good friends as well as to one's beloved. White Day is a [[TruthInTelevision real holiday]] in Japan; it's celebrated a month after Valentine's Day and is a day when men are expected to reciprocate for the gifts they got on Valentine's Day.
* One of the ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'' books has Rapunzel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' celebrating what is essentially Halloween but in summer (on Marmalade Moon Night). She uses watermelons instead of pumpkins for making Jack-o'-lanterns.
* The FramingDevice of ''The Legend of Podkin One-Ear'' (and the opening of the story itself) is set on Bramblemas Eve, when presents are left in the warren by the mysterious Midwinter Rabbit.
* ''Literature/LlamaLlama Holiday Drama'' has Llama Llama and his Mama Llama doing holiday sales and otherwise prepping for the holidays, eventually resulting in "holidrama," but even though all the details are Christmasy, the word "Christmas" is never mentioned. In the board book ''Llama Llama Jingle Bells'', however, they explicitly celebrate Christmas and a "[[SantaClaus Llama Santa]]" is even mentioned.
* In ''Literature/ADogsPurpose'', the protagonist is a dog who [[InnocentInaccurate doesn't understand humans much]]. He refers to Thanksgiving and Christmas as "Happy Thanksgiving" and "Merry Christmas".
* Disney's ''Literature/ATaleOf'' series treats Winter Solstice as the equivalent of Christmas, complete with a solstice tree.
* The ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novels have Otherstide, a Gallifreyan festival honouring the Other. We learn very little about it, but one Christmassy touch is that the Otherstide season ends on Thirteenth Night.
* In ''Literature/{{Littlenose}}'', a series of children's books about a Neanderthal boy, Littlenose's tribe celebrate the Sun Dance, where they build a big bonfire and gather together as much green plants as they can find, to remind the sun what summer looks like.

** And there was a Bajoran "Gratitude Festival" in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' -- they stopped short of eating turkey, although there is a reference in one episode to a UsefulNotes/ThanksgivingDay dinner Sisko served, which did include turkey and stuffing.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' has substitute holidays for many Western and Eastern celebrations alike. The "X-mas" is called the Starlight Festival, and of course involves people in Santa hats and coats called "smilebringers" giving presents to children. Interestingly, it's suggested that the smilebringer tradition may have been started by goblins, who are (usually) an enemy race in the game. Oddly enough, despite the presence of a [[CrystalDragonJesus goddess whose worship is sometimes reminiscent of Christianity]], neither the Starlight Festival nor any of the other holidays seem to have any relation to any ''in-game'' religious practice whatsoever. Wishing on stars is as close as it gets.

*** The Rising, a nonholiday holiday, as it's simply a anniversary event for the Relaunch of the game out of universe, while in universe it serves as a memorial to the Calamity. A fairly low key event and often (But not always) takes place during the Moonfire Faire, creating a somber element amongst the festivities, though special fireworks are set off in memorial. As time has gone on, the event has split off more and gained its own decorations. It replaced Founding Day, which was the original game anniversary and a honoring of the founding of the Eeorzan Alliance. Fitting its nature as a game anniversry, the event usually includes a fourth wall breaking sequence involving Yoshi-P (Not to be confused with his avatar, the Wandering Minstrel, who also appears) and other members of the dev team, including the famous Developer's Office, and deliberate hints about updates in the year to come. Rewards for the event usually consist of minions, namely wind up dolls in the likeness of major [=NPCs=].

* ''VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsOnline'' has an annual Yule Festival in Winter-home, a town that can't be found on the maps. Yule celebrations involve playing games and doing chores to win tokens that can be spent on surprise gifts, clothes, and horses. There's a Christmas charity subplot of Winter-home's mayor [[spoiler:exploiting workers, and the player character choosing whether to help or take advantage of said workers]]. At the end of the quest, [[AndYourRewardIsClothes you get a special set of clothes]] depending on which path you chose. Perhaps needless to say, one of them is ''much'' more elegant and showy than the other [[spoiler:(though if you chose to help the workers and got the shabby clothing, you'll get a bonus gift of a possibly even nicer outfit a couple of months later from a relative of the workers who lives in Bree)]].
** In addition to that, there are a number of seasonal festivals scattered throughout the year but roughly corresponding to Easter (Spring Festival, which has events involving colored eggs), (US) Independence Day (Summer Festival, which prominently features fireworks), and Halloween/Thanksgiving (Harvest Festival, which has a series of daily quests set in a "Haunted Burrow").

** Also, Versalmas, which is the same as Maplemas but more purple.

* [[Videogame/{{Portal}} ApertureScience.com]] has celebrated Christmas twice, once on 2007 and once on 2010. Both times the holiday was designated as "<Holiday Name Here>", and was celebrated by various ''Portal''- and ''Portal 2''-themed (also with themes of ''The Orange Box'' in 2007, as ''Portal 2'' was unheard of) props with a Christmas theme being placed in the "Holiday Vault".

* MMORPG ''VideoGame/StarWarsGalaxies'' ran with the ball ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' had handed them and declared December 25th Wookiee Life Day. As we all know ([[FanonDiscontinuity although I'm sure we'd like to forget]]), Wookiee Life Day is celebrated quite similarly to Christmas.

* Lampshaded in [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0047.html this]] ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' strip; the joke, of course, is that in the ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' universe where the strip takes place, not only Christmas but the concept of ''winter'' would be completely alien to the characters.

* ''Literature/BritsuneGarden'' has Fuyu Matsuri, which is a [[FantasyCounterpartReligion Kamitan]] winter celebration originating from Japan, but was eventually brought to western countries and celebrated there with even their own original traditions of the holiday (which are, not surprisingly, identical to real-world Christmas traditions). The holiday has its own origin story, which revolves around the Kamitan winter god Koriyomi and the Yuki-Inu, a gift-giving figure analogous to Santa Claus.
** It is also inspired by [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHolidays Tanabata and Obon]].

* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' gives us "Slavemas" an ancient Egyptian holiday where the people of Egypt had to serve as slaves to Pharoah Atem. Until the thief king tried to ruin it, at which point he just made EVERYONE slaves all year round. And it's done as parody of ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', too. Yes, 'tis awesome.
* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Santa never came to the Saiyans on Planet Vegeta, they heard of the joy he brought to children, of the presents, of the merriment, that they were denied. Planet Vegeta never got Christmas, all they got was Freeza Day.
-->'''Goku:''' Well what'd you get for Freeza Day?\\

** It is later revealed that Santa did try to deliver gifts to Planet Vegeta, but the Saiyans kept trying to shoot down his sleigh.

* The residents of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' celebrate a similar Halloween event known as the Blue Moon Shut-In. Residents go from door to door gathering supplies, similar to trick-or-treating, and construct fear gourds, similar to jack 'o lanterns. The frogs then use the supplies to board up their homes and hide inside for the whole night, as anyone who looks at the blue moon will transform into a hideous beast.

** ''WesternAnimation/ButterbeansCafe'' manages to pull off the same trick in "The Sugar Plum Fairy!", with said universe's version of Santa Claus being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Sugar Plum Fairy]].

** And depending on your perspective, you could throw in a couple of pagan holidays as well: the Summer Sun Celebration (Summer Solstice, also possibly a national holiday given the centrality of Princess Celestia) and Winter Wrap-Up (Vernal Equinox, albeit a day early and with a focus on [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows actually physically changing the seasons]]).

* The 2009 reboot of ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' has the inhabitants of Berry Bitty City celebrating First Frost, which is essentially the solstice, but with a little bit of Thanksgiving thrown in for good measure. The celebration includes marching through the patch with berry lanterns (in remembrance of the first settlers of BBC, who did so to save their crops), giving gifts (only the girls do this, though. The Berrykins have their own tradition that isn't mentioned), and ends with a fancy dress ball called the Glimmerberry Ball.

*** It is also established that the Avalorans celebrate Carnaval, which is similar to the Brazilian Carnival, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS but with an "a"]]. Interestingly, Carnival is a celebration of Ash Wednesday, also known as the beginning of Lent (in other words, the forty-day period before Easter).

* WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie celebrate Molting Day, where the ghost of a bird named St. Oriole, who died instead of migrating with his family, delivers candy to spread familial love. Other than that, it functions just like Christmas, with songs like "Silent Night" appearing with slightly tweaked lyrics and a poster with Santa Claus appearing in the background.
** Another episode features “Corpse Week”, a holiday with elements of Halloween, the Day of the Dead, and Thanksgiving.

* ''WesternAnimation/NatureCat'' has the episode "Winter Dance Party" in which every year on the day of the winter solstice, Daisy's Granny Bunny celebrates with a winter dance party. Daisy has been caught unprepared for the occasion, however, and must hurry to get everything set up before she arrives with the help of her friends.
** Later on, the series did have a ChristmasEpisode, titled [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol "A Nature Carol"]].

* For the entire Southern Hemisphere, Christmas is a ''summer'' holiday, but it's still celebrated with the full Victorian paraphernalia. It's not unusual for an [[UsefulNotes/ChristmasInAustralia Australian Christmas]] (for example) to involve roast turkeys and fake snowmen during a 40 degree Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) day.
** And Surfer-Santa!

* In ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' comics, the characters celebrate a holiday with strong resemblances to Christmas (or some sort of solstice festival) by bringing a green pine tree into their house during the depths of winter.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* ''DCU Holiday Special '09'' revealed that in the future of the Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes, all the midwinter festivals have been merged into a single event, simply called Holiday.
* In ''Comicbook/ShadeTheChangingMan'', the Metan counterpart of Christmas is called the Day of Bones, and celebrates the day, 2500 years ago, when a "prophet, or son of the Godhead, or whatever you want to call him" dug up the bones of the dead and brought them back to life.

* According to the ''Comicbook/RogueTrooper'' story "Runaway", the Norts celebrate a festival called Feinkart. We don't learn much about it, and even the viewpoint Nort runaway isn't sure what it actually celebrates, but since the story appears in the ''Comicbook/TwoThousandAD'' Christmas Special 2023 and ends with Rogue wishing the kid "Frolikke Feinkart" (clearly [[LanguageDrift derived]] from "fröhliche", as in "Fröhliche Weihnachten"), it's presumably this trope. The name itself would seem to translate as "fine card", possibly in reference to Christmas cards.

* In the abridged ''Franchise/XMen'' series by Lets Burn Holes we get "Jesus Christ's Birthday" in place of the Christmas special, with lines such as "Let's go home and sing some Jesus Christ Carols!". And it ends with Beast (Professional JerkAss) and the Morlocks convincing Wolverine, Storm and Jubilee that Jesus Christ has been reborn on Earth. It also features such traditional Jesus Christ's Birthday traditions as ice skating, shop lifting, AIDS jokes and cannibalism.

* In the world of ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'' they celebrate a holiday called Crimmus, where the immortal MagicalGirl Holly Jolly uses her powers of slowing down time, passing through barriers, and carrying infinite presents in her BagOfHolding to give to children. Anemone also hints they have some sort of equivalent to Easter (with the magical girl Spring Rabbit). A later comic discusses their Halloween equivalent, Fright Night, in which children dress up as monsters and ask for candy from the adults in order to placate the monsters' spirits.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}, the first day of Sigil's year (in as much as the City of Doors at the centre of the multiverse ''has'' something you'd call a year) is the Day of Grace, commemorating a time when the Lady of Pain was approached by a small girl and nothing terrible happened to the girl, indicating that even the Lady can show mercy. On this day, people in Sigil try to show the same mercy and grace the Lady demonstrated (even factions like the Doomguard and Fated at least make the attempt, sometimes). There's also a parade, and while there isn't exactly a tradition of gift-giving, a combination of shopkeepers "showing grace" by reducing prices and people wanting to show grace to their friends means that it does happen.

** In the rarely-mentioned 800-day Astronomical Year, the ''other'' winter solstice is called Crueltide. We don't learn of any customs or celebrations connected to it, but the name is obviously a pun on Yuletide.

** In the rarely-mentioned 800-day Astronomical Year, the ''other'' midwinter is called Crueltide. We don't learn of any customs or celebrations connected to it, but the name is obviously a pun on Yuletide.

* ''The Comicbook/{{Gwenpool}} Holiday Special: Merry Mix-Up'' features a wide range of Marvel-specific riffs on the holidays that our NoFourthWall protagonist can't help noticing have never, ever, been mentioned before.

* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' also features Wintersday as one of the six yearly special events, with Wintersday trees (Christmas trees) in major cities and almost any event-related activity awarding Wintersday presents. They also kept Lunar New Year and Shadow of the Mad King/Halloween from the earlier game, but the other three special events are not tied to real-world holidays.

* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' has "Twistmas", which is basically Christmas except without Jesus and Santa delivers to adults too, and "Pranksgiving", which is basically April Fool's.
* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' celebrates Christmas by having Q slam the numerous counterparts to the holiday for a month-and-a-half long celebration just referred to as "Q's Winter Wonderland".
* ''VideoGame/DragaliaLost'' has Dragonyule, which is similar to Christmas, down to folks decorating Yuletrees. There's even a Santa Claus stand-in named Saint Starfall. Unlike a lot of Christmas knockoffs, there's also a in-universe religious aspect to this one; as it celebrates the birth of the setting's messiah figure, the goddess Ilia. (Oddly, though, Halloween and Valentine's Day were not given the same treatment and are just like our versions of those holidays.)
* In the multiplayer version of ''VideoGame/DontStarve'', the characters stranded in the wilderness celebrate Hallowed Nights and Winter's Feast, which are clearly meant to be Halloween and a combination of December winter holidays, respectively. Though Winter's Feast has a very Christmasy flavor, with a decorated evergreen tree and Christmastime treats like gingerbread and candy canes, though there are also foods associated with other holidays, like latkes, available. In spite of the fact that the characters seem to mostly have come from the real world, Winter's Feast is the only winter holiday they acknowledge as existing.
* ''VideoGame/DCUniverseOnline'' has a holiday event for the month of December. While it's clearly only celebrating Christmas, the [=NPCs=] refuse to refer to it as such, often simply calling it "the Winter Holiday".
* ''VideoGame/LEGODimensions'': The ''Gremlins'' adventure world is decorated with snow, colorful lights, and decorated trees, yet no actual mention of Christmas is made. Lampshaded by one NPC who proclaims one of the world's restorations to be a "non-specific holiday miracle". Subverted by Pete Fountaine, who states that he needs a "Christmas miracle", being the only character to refer to the holiday by name.
* ''VideoGame/ArkSurvivalEvolved'''s "Winter Wonderland" event is Christmas in all but name. There's even [[https://i.redd.it/1ur6nv1qqc761.jpg a Raptor cosplaying as Santa Claus who rides a Megaloceros-drawn sleigh]] across the night sky, [[VocalDissonance belly-laughing]] and dropping festive packages of high-level loot.
* ''VideoGame/{{Littlewood}}'':
** The Scavenger Hunt is fairly subtle about it, but still recognizable. The festival is in Spring, the items that need to be found are eggs and the officiating NPC is a Bunnyfolk called the Scavenger Bunny, making the festival an easter analogue.
** There is a festival called "Punkin day" in the fall. Punkins are clearly the setting's counterpart to pumpkins, the day's minigame can be best summed up as chasing ghosts and all the residents in the PlayerCharacter's town wear costumes for the occasion. This festival is clearly the setting's counterpart to Halloween.
* ''VideoGame/ClubPenguin'' traditionally held a Christmas Party (later renamed to Holiday Paty in 2009) every year since its founding in 2005. However, in 2014 they instead held the [[https://clubpenguin.fandom.com/wiki/Merry_Walrus_Party Merry Walrus Party]], themed around the titular Santa Claus-like figure who delivers presents around the world to everyone, regardless whether they have been naughty or nice. The Holiday Party returned the next year and continued until ''Club Penguin'' closed in 2017. Merry Walrus himself did return after December 25, 2015 during the 2015 Holiday Party to give out a free Deluxe Gingerbread House to all players.
* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': Every year, there is a "Feastivus" event where zombies wear Christmas sweaters or elf costumes.

** Other holidays and events celebrated include Crimson Days (Valentine's Day), the Revelry (Easter/Spring equinox) Solstice of Heroes (Summer solstice), and Guardian Games (Summer Olympics)
* ''[[Franchise/DisneyFairies Pixie Hollow Online]]'' had [[HolidayEpisode events]] that correspond to real-world holidays:
** [[ValentinesDayEpisode Valentine's Day]] is called "[[PlatonicValentine Fairy Friendship Festival]]".
** St. Patrick's Day is called "Spring Clover Celebration".
* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': Christmas is called "Winter Holiday" but Halloween is still called Halloween.
* Azeroth of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' holds the "Feast of Winter Veil" every December. This is apparently universal among the disparate cultures, and comes with people who think the holiday is being overcommercialized, and its own versions of Main/SantaClaus. For the Alliance we have Greatfather Winter, a dwarf. And for the horde there's Great-Father Winter, an orc. Both are dressed as Santa and have white beards (their names could be based on Grandfather Frost, the Eastern Slavic equivalent of Santa).
** ''World of Warcraft'' also includes renamed versions of Halloween (Hallow's End), Easter (Noble Garden), Valentine's Day (Love is in the Air), Fourth of July/Canada Day (Midsummer Fire Festival), a UsefulNotes/ThanksgivingDay-esque holiday (Harvest Festival), Children's day and Mother's Day (Children's Week) and the Chinese New Year (Lunar Festival) in the game. October 2007 even saw the introduction of an Oktoberfest analogue, Brewfest. The Spirit of Competition showed up for the Olymipcs in 08. Even the unofficial Holiday, Talk like a Pirate Day is celebrated with Pirates' Day.
** They have also implemented Pilgrim's Bounty (Thanksgiving analogue) and Day of the Dead (after the real-world event).
* The online game ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has "Crimbo", complete with Crimbo Elves and Uncle Crimbo himself. Also, Hannukkah is replaced with "Hannukimbo", UsefulNotes/ThanksgivingDay with "The Feast of Boris", St. Patrick's Day with "St. Sneaky Pete's Day", and Easter with "Oyster Egg Day" (during which players can hunt for "oyster eggs" left behind by a Magical Flying Oyster). They even have a holiday called "Dependence Day", during which the citizens of Loathing set off fireworks. Oddly, Halloween and Valentine's Day are in the game unchanged.
** There's also the somewhat less subtle examples of "Arrrbor Day" (it involves pirates planting trees), "Labór Day" (celebrating the RasputinianDeath of [[PunnyName Manuel Labór]]) and [[BilingualBonus "El Dia de Los Muertos Borrachos"]].
** It is perhaps worth noting that "Crimbo" is used as slang for Christmas in some parts of Britain, although it does not extend to "Crimbo Elves". Also, whilst the Crimbo story starts out pretty much like any Christmas story, it has gone through many things that aren't precisely expected in a holiday story. Such as [[Franchise/StarTrek the Crimborg]], festive radiation, [[TheMafia the Penguin Mafia]], and [[WasOnceAMan the Crimbomination]].

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' has the simply named Winter Event, during which for a month the city gets randomly attacked by giant monster snowmen and the Ski Chalet in Pocket D, [[InnBetweenTheWorlds the interdimensional dance club]], is open for business.
* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': Most games in the series feature real-world holidays, many of which aren't referred to by their real-world names. For instance, Christmas is known as Toy Day, Thanksgiving is known as Turkey Day (the Harvest Festival prior to ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons''), Mardi Gras is known as Festivale, and St. Patrick's Day is known as Shamrock Day. In the international and ''e+'' releases of [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing2001 the first game]], the Fireworks Show occurs specifically on July 4 as an analog for American Independence Day (in other titles, it occurs on August weekends).
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** Tamriel has the "New Life" festival on the 25th of Evening Star (December), and is even explicitly described as a 'time of gift giving'.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'''s ''Bloodmoon'' expansion has a side quest with a Santa Claus-type figure named Uncle Sweetshare. (Only instead of presents, he gives you drugs.) The game's files include an unused version of Sweetshare named Grandfather Frost, who was even more Santa-like. (Supposedly he was replaced for being ''too much'' like Santa.)
* MMORPG ''VideoGame/StarWarsGalaxies'' ran with the ball ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' had handed them and declared December 25th Wookiee Life Day. As we all know ([[FanonDiscontinuity although I'm sure we'd like to forget]]), Wookiee Life Day is celebrated quite similarly to Christmas.
** ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' did some similar winks and nods, including a downloadable decorated tree prop, a speeder with gawdy strings of lights attached, those red robes as customizable armor, and a red-nosed Tauntaun...
* In ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'''s world of Lore, they celebrate Frostval, a day marked by the Frost Moglins of Frostvale making and delivering presents to the people of Lore. While this is pretty much where the similarity between Frostval and Christmas ends, there are two Santa Claus-themed monsters: a mutant crab named Sandy Claws and a skeleton in a Santa suit named Gris Dingle. Quests around this time generally involve the holiday being held up by a war against a powerful Ice Dragon and the players having to help deliver the presents before they magically unwrap themselves. Other holidays include Grenwog (Easter), Good Luck Day (St. Patrick's Day), Hero's Heart Day (Valentine's Day).
** ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'' had a Moglinster (basically a monstrous version of a moglin) called Santy Claws for 2009's Frostval.
** Pretty much all of Artix Entertainment's games have alternate versions of real-world holidays. Frostval is Christmas, of course, but there's also Thankstaking (Thanksgiving), Mogloween (Halloween), Hero's Hearts Day (Valentine's Day), and a traditional Gold Fever War on St. Patrick's Day (which is called Good Luck Day). There are many celebrated under their real-world names, such as the Fourth of July, April Fools' Day, and Talk Like a Pirate Day. Every Friday the 13th is also celebrated.
* ''VideoGame/AnimalJam'' has [[PlatonicValentine Friendship Festival (Valentine's Day)]], Lucky Day (St. Patrick's Day), Spring Festival (Easter), Freedom Day (Fourth of July), Night of the Phantoms (Halloween), Feast of Thanks (Thanksgiving), and, of course, Jamaalidays (Christmas, plus Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and winter holidays in general).

* The ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' series features mostly UsefulNotes/JapaneseHolidays, but (with the exception of New Year's) the real holiday names are ''never'' used. Valentine's Day and White Day become "Winter Thanksgiving" and "Spring Thanksgiving". Christmas Eve and Day become "Starry Night" and "Stocking Festival". That last bit is subverted in a few games where you can actually unlock a holiday called the Goddess Festival in honor of -- who else? -- the Harvest Goddess.

* ''VideoGame/EverQuestII'' has Frostfell, a general winter holiday that lasts through all of December and parts of January. Other celebrated holidays are Bristlebane's Day for April Fools Day, Erollisi Day for Valentines, Brew Day for St. Patrick's Day, and Nights of the Dead for Halloween.
* ''VideoGame/{{Startopia}}'''s Groulien Salt Hogs have a festival/holiday called Chrimbas. Apparently it involves handing out a random selection of wrapped-up gifts and low-grade toxins to their youngsters, who either squeal with delight or choke as their respiratory system temporarily shuts down.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'':
** ''Team Fortress 2'' has Australian Christmas. It takes place a week before regular Christmas, and instead of giving good children toys, Old Nick (Nicolas Crowder) takes all the bad kids to the South Pole and forces them to build hats and weapons for the next twelve months, at which point the fruits of their labours are given to him as gifts.
--->"Naturally, given the sheer number of hats and weapons Old Nick receives, there are bound to be duplicates -- And every December 18th, he posts them online, selling them at prices so low he's practically giving them away."
** The 2011 Australian Christmas update introduced "Smissmas", which seems to be celebrated identically to Christmas. As of 2012, Australian Christmas is completely absent from the equation, having presumably died with its perpetrator.

* ''VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsOnline'' has Festivult, where a dwarf in bright clothing gives presents to all the good little clerics and wizards. It's typically a month-long event where players collect coins and exchange them for cookies and treats that cast magical effects on whoever eats them. You might also get a lump of coal or a twig as "punishment" -- though the twig can be crafted into a rechargable Eternal Wand of Frost, where most wands have a limited number of uses before being consumed.
* ''VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsOnline'' has an annual Yule Festival in Winter-home, a town that can't be found on the maps. Yule celebrations involve playing games and doing chores to win tokens that can be spent on surprise gifts, clothes, and horses. There's a Christmas charity subplot of Winter-home's mayor [[spoiler:exploiting workers, and the player character choosing whether to help or take advantage of said workers]]. At the end of the quest, [[AndYourRewardIsClothes you get a special set of clothes]] depending on which path you chose. Perhaps needless to say, one of them is ''much'' more elegant and showy than the other [[spoiler:(though if you chose to help the workers and got the shabby clothing, you'll get a bonus gift of a possibly even nicer outfit a couple of months later from a relative of the workers who lives in Bree)]].
** In addition to that, there are a number of seasonal festivals scattered throughout the year but roughly corresponding to Easter (Spring Festival, which has events involving colored eggs), (US) Independence Day (Summer Festival, which prominently features fireworks), and Halloween/Thanksgiving (Harvest Festival, which has a series of daily quests set in a "Haunted Burrow").
* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' has Mercenary Day, which was invented by the Dahl Corporation as a promotional stunt in which all mercenary services were free for a day. In Pandora, it's since been adopted as the resident equivalent of Christmas.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'': The Spring Festival is an Easter counterpart, featuring painted eggs and characters dressed up like bunnies. There is also the Harvest Festival in fall, where Halloween-related festivities--including trick-or-treating--also take place. The Winter Festival is a Christmas counterpart, with characters donning festive attire and presents delivered by the Winter Festival Envoy. The Day of Devotion is a counterpart to Valentine's Day, though it celebrates familial and platonic love as well as the romantic variety. New Year's Day is just New Year's Day, but is specifically Japanese New Year; this is handwaved by always taking place in Hoshido.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kiff}}'': “Halfway There Day” is a holiday celebrated on July 2, the exact halfway point of the year. The day is dedicated to [[DarnItToHeck “half-heinie-ing it”]], or putting in the least amount of effort possible. The centerpiece of the holiday is the “Halfway There Day dinner crawl” where the celebrants go from house to house and the hosts put out the easiest snacks they can make. It’s said that if Halfway There day is celebrated properly, “Centaur Claus” will visit and absolve everyone of their New Years’ Day resolutions.

* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': In "[[Recap/WorkItOutWombatsS1E30HarvestDayThankfulnessStew The Treeborhood Harvest Day / The Treeborhood Thankfulness Stew]]", Harvest Day is a stand-in for Thanksgiving, as it revolves around thankfulness and eating a big feast together.

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->''"Back on Earth we called this Christmas, or the Winter Solstice. On this world, the first settlers called it The Crystal Feast."''

Naturally, these episodes are aired around the holiday they're really trying to depict, and sometimes may receive a name change in order to comment on them without raising the ire of {{Media Watchdog}}s. Thus, it's a handy way to [[SantaClausmas address only the secular aspects of a holiday]] and even [[LighterandSofter save yourself some of the work]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': Zigzagged in "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E23TheStarryAwardsBlorpsgiving Blorpsgiving]]". The episode ''does'' name Thanksgiving as such, and [[ThanksgivingEpisode starts on the day]]. However, in the ShowWithinAShow that Squidina and Patrick watch, it's called ''Blorps''giving and celebrated by robots. This is despite the traditions of "Blorpsgiving", being an extended family gathering and a feast, basically being Thanksgiving with a robot twist.