Gathering there's a lot of snow in Germany (8)
I believe the answer is:
drifting
'gathering' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'there's a lot of snow in germany' is the wordplay.
'there's' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'a lot of snow' becomes 'drift'.
'germany' becomes 'g' (this could be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'drift' next to 'in' is 'driftin'.
'driftin'+'g'='DRIFTING'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for drifting that I've seen before include "Floating with the current" , "Floating about aimlessly" , "Aimlessly wandering from place to place" .)