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

[Anonymous]

For summer time sliding you need to put the hose at the top.

[Anonymous]

Slide, 50, from VA

[Anonymous]

Slide, 60. I thought all you chopper Mom's had rid our playgrounds of these death traps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slide

Sliding board sounds ridiculous.

Young whippersnapper. Back in the old days, these were sliding boards because THESE were slides:

[Anonymous]

It's a slide - I'm 38 and from NY. My grandma who was born in the early 1900s called it a sliding board. My MIL calls it a "sliding pond" which WTF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maryland, Montgomery County- 39. I call them slides and have never heard of them being called anything else.

Me, too but I’m 45.

[Anonymous]

Slide, 45, oregon/washington

[Anonymous]

Slide, CT, 38

[Anonymous]

Slide NYS

[Anonymous]

Slide, 41, Virginia

[Anonymous]

Slide, 54, California

[Anonymous]

Sliding pond. Thats right, sliding pond. Brooklyn, NY.

But after decades around here, just a slide.

[Anonymous]

Slide or ass burner. Those metal slides were brutal on hot sunny days.

45 Canada

[Anonymous]

Slides, always just slides. Age 40, from Ohio

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slide Upon (not kidding, that's what my mother called it), NJ, 50

Googling confirms "sliding pond" - my usage as a kid - is a corruption of slide upon. I am from Brooklyn - this usage seems to be confined to NYC and nearby parts of NJ. It may be obsolete there?