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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Toboggan. France.

Tobogán. South America.

[Anonymous]

What?? I’ve NEVER heard the term “sliding boards”. I’m 39.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We called them both, but this reminds me of the game "Chutes and Ladders." I've been told that in England they call them chutes- is that true?

Ummm, the game is called “snakes and ladders”.

[Anonymous]

I call it a slide now, but growing up in southeast Virginia, it was a sliding board. Age 40.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What?? I’ve NEVER heard the term “sliding boards”. I’m 39.

Ditto. I'm 45 and from CA. The only term we ever used was slides.

[Anonymous]

Aussies call it a slippery dip

[Anonymous]

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

+1 from Arizona, 44. And for all the Zonies who didn't do this, you were missing out!

[Anonymous]

Sliding board, Pittsburgh, 41.

[Anonymous]

Delaware, 44, sliding board!

[Anonymous]

slide, 33, pa.

sliding board? wtf?

[Anonymous]

Slide, MD, 53

[Anonymous]

Slide, which my DS preferred to walk up then down the stairs and on and on again. (53 NY)

[Anonymous]

Liumägi, 40, Estonia.
Translates into slide-mountain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We called them both, but this reminds me of the game "Chutes and Ladders." I've been told that in England they call them chutes- is that true?

Ummm, the game is called “snakes and ladders”.

I am from Montreal and we used both terms. Chute is slide in French.

[Anonymous]

Slide -- grew up in NoVA