What do you call this, where are you from, and how old are you?

Anonymous wrote:When I was very little I called it a sliding board in WV, with parents from PA. I am 44. Changed to slide at some point. My WV peers all called it a slicky-slide, but even at age 5 that struck me as moronic.

From WV originally, 45 and we never called it anything but a Slicky-Slide. I read through the whole thread and only this post stated similar. Agree, pretty silly and redundant name but it was great fun, except when there'd be a line all the way up the steps and a kid would balk at going down.

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06/13/2023 13:51

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Anonymous

Born in 1956, so I am 67.
Raised in Delaware County, just outside Philadelphia.

That's a sliding board.

My (adult) kids think I've lost my mind. It's a slide to them. Clearly, I have failed to raise them properly. Though they ARE iggles fans.

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06/13/2023 13:52

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Anonymous

England. 54
Slide.

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06/13/2023 16:59

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Anonymous

I am fifty-four, live in S.CA and I grew up calling these playground 🛝 slides.

When it was hot outside however these things used to scorch my legs & I avoided them like Covid.

What took so long to invent the plastic slide??!

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06/13/2023 19:24

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Anonymous

Sliding board, Connecticut, 70 years old.

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06/13/2023 22:07

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Anonymous

Slide, North Carolina, 46