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

[Anonymous]

Op again. I've never heard sliding pond! Seems related to slide-upon?

And slide mountain, slippery dip, toboggan. Love these.

Sounds like sliding board was found in MD, DC, DE, PA (mostly Pittsburgh?), southern VA, NC...but definitely not universally, and also is dying out. It sounds so weird to me now but it's definitely what I (and my siblings and parents) called it growing up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slide, 41.
I'm from Alaska, though, so butt-burning wasn't much of an issue. I'm not even sure I owned any shorts as a kid.

Teeter-totter or see-saw?

OP again...see-saw here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Toboggan. France.

Tobogán. South America.

In English a toboggan is a sled (the thing you sit or lie on in winter to slide down a hill of snow). Still has to do with sliding, so maybe the same root. 38 from Philly here -- we mostly called them sleds, but my dad is from Detroit and he and my grandparents still call them toboggans, and all the books I read as a kid called them toboggans also.

Of course, we don't get enough snow now to really break them out and my kids are too young for them yet anyway.

[Anonymous]

Metal slide, originally from near Milwaukee, 24.

[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”.

The game board has an illustration showing actual snakes, not playground slides.

[Anonymous]

Slide, 53, MO/KS

[Anonymous]

Sliding board, Albany, NY, 45

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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”.

The game board has an illustration showing actual snakes, not playground slides.

Maybe outside the US. Here in the US, Milton Bradley has pretty much a monopoly on distribution and it has playground slides:



I had never heard of "snakes and ladders" until this thread. So I looked up the board and see:



Interesting.

[Anonymous]

A slide. 33, NYC area.

[Anonymous]

Glissade en métal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

No, it is not. A chute is a waterfall. A slide is a glissoire, toboggan but everyone calls it a "glissade".
The game is called Serpents et échelles (Snakes and Ladders)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Toboggan. France.

Tobogán. South America.

In English a toboggan is a sled (the thing you sit or lie on in winter to slide down a hill of snow). Still has to do with sliding, so maybe the same root. 38 from Philly here -- we mostly called them sleds, but my dad is from Detroit and he and my grandparents still call them toboggans, and all the books I read as a kid called them toboggans also.

Of course, we don't get enough snow now to really break them out and my kids are too young for them yet anyway.

Children are never too young to go sledding. We start them at one around here.

[Anonymous]

Slide, 41, CA

[Anonymous]

Slide, 47, Texas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

No, it is not. A chute is a waterfall. A slide is a glissoire, toboggan but everyone calls it a "glissade".
The game is called Serpents et échelles (Snakes and Ladders)

True but it is also used to describe a drop, a fall, or a slide.