umsami Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 So, my kids and I were reading a book in which the term "sliding board" was used instead of the one we are most familiar with "slide." I had never heard that before. Google revealed that it is a regional term, as are the others listed above. So, where did you grow up and what did you call that piece of playground equipment where you climb to the top of a ladder and zoom on down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I grew up in SE Asia. Our playground slides were concrete mostly and some were metal slides. A chute would be the newer covered plastic slide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnE-girl Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 (edited) I've never heard of those other terms. I will say that the old playground at the public school near my childhood home had what could probably be called a sliding board. It looked like a three ft wide piece of sheet metal that was attached to the side of the wooden play structure about five feet off the ground. It was a very odd short slide. It also got insanely hot on sunny days. Edited to add: I grew up in the suburbs of a large Midwestern city. Edited April 20, 2017 by AnnE-girl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink and Green Mom Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I say slide but I do remember them being called sliding boards when I was I elementary school (born in 1970, lived in NJ my entire childhood). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmandaVT Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Always called it a slide - I had to google to see what the others were and this article cracked me up! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebbyribs Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 (edited) I grew up calling them sliding boards, but I call them slides now. And I called the play structure a "climbing apparatus". I'm not sure if that was my region or just my parents being weird. ETA: I'm from Eastern Maryland, and my parents are from New Jersey. Edited April 20, 2017 by rebbyribs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Just called it a slide. Pnw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I use the term sliding board. I grew up in Pennsylvania. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selkie Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I grew up in the midwest and have only ever heard it called a slide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I grew up in northern NJ and we called it a sliding pond. However, I don't know if that's a regional term or an antiquated term. It could have just been the times I grew up in since terms for things do change. I've lived more of my life in Florida than NJ (I was 13 when my family moved here and I'm almost eligible for social security now) and have called it a slide for more years than I can recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Japan- suberidai. I.e. Slide in English Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTRMom Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 In south central and southwest US it's a slide. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 A slide, but I was familiar with chute and slippery dip from story books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Geek Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Slide or sliding board either one although I voted slide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmaluv+2more Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Slide. Grew up in the midwest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xahm Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I grew up with sliding board in Ga, but switched to slide. Now I've heard my preschool age kids saying sliding board, and I don't know where they heard it. I assume other kids on the playground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Slide. I grew up in GA/NC. I was familiar with chute from a childhood song. And I remember some people using slippery slide. In my head that's specifically the corkscrew slides, but that may just be a childhood fancy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Midwest, slide. I love this poll. Slippery dip?!? Sliding pot?!? Too fun. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 (edited) A slide and a slippery slide are two different things here. A slide is playground equipment usually made of some kind of tough plastic around here. A slippery slide is a long mat-like material that gets very slippery when you turn the garden hose on it. In the summer, we used to run, then plop onto the watery - slippery slide and slide the length of it while getting wet. These work best in a front - or back yard with a slight slope. :) They are sometimes sold as "Slip n' Slide." Edited April 20, 2017 by Liz CA 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 So no one called it a sliding pond? That's what makes me think it's antiquated rather than regional. I don't know when I started calling it just a slide but I know I used that word by the time my niece was born in 1988. I never heard the other terms used. Only sliding pond and slide. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 A slippery slide is a long mat-like material that gets very slippery when you turn the garden hose on it. In the summer, we used to run, then plop onto the watery - slippery slide and slide the length of it while getting wet. These work best in a front - or back yard with a slight slope. :) Your slippery slide would be the homemade equivalent of what I called water slides at water parks. There are inflatable lawn water slides but I have never tried those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 We sometimes called it a slipper slide as kids but mostly just slide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ. Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 We called it a sliding board. I am from NE Ohio. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookbard Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Slippery dip. Australia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Keeper Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Slide here in Maine….but the inlaws in PA call it a sliding board and confuse my children. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arctic Bunny Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Slide - Canada, prairies. The things I learn on here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 (edited) I voted for slide, since that's the English word I was taught for it. Of course, what I grew up calling it was a glijbaan, which is what it's called in Dutch. ETA: I've taken my kids to the playground in Texoma and in WNY plenty of times and have only ever heard it referred to as a slide. Edited April 20, 2017 by luuknam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasider Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Sliding board, gulf south Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammi K Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 (edited) Sliding board when I was a kid in PA. Slippery dip when my kids were living in Australia. Slide everywhere else. funny story - I grew up in Pennsylvania Dutch part of PA. As a kid I frequently heard, "Stop rutching around," or 'rutch over'. It was only when I lived in Bavaria and learned that a slide in German was rutche that I really understood that wasn't an 'everywhere' kind of word. Edited April 20, 2017 by Tammi K 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalsummer Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 sliding a board is when a group posts a lot of nonsense on a web forum in order to bury (or slide) the relevant threads the thing you zoom down is a slide (texas, missouri, now colorado) had no idea there were different words for it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 slide - Australia but I am familiar with the term Slippery Dip from reading The Magic Faraway Tree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I grew up in northern NJ and we called it a sliding pond. However, I don't know if that's a regional term or an antiquated term. It could have just been the times I grew up in since terms for things do change. I've lived more of my life in Florida than NJ (I was 13 when my family moved here and I'm almost eligible for social security now) and have called it a slide for more years than I can recall. Also from North Jersey, but younger. I've never heard sliding pond. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 My husband reminded me that in The Happy Man and His Dump Truck, the animals say, "What a fine sliding board!" when they are tipped out of the truck. I love a man who knows his children's books. :) The book was first published in 1950. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Sliding board or slide, used interchangeably growing up. MidAtlantic region. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKim Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Western Virginia. Called it a sliding board as a kid. After growing up and being exposed to lots more people and books, etc., I just call it a slide now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2scouts Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 When I was a child we called it a sliding board. I usually just say slide now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasider Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 My husband reminded me that in The Happy Man and His Dump Truck, the animals say, "What a fine sliding board!" when they are tipped out of the truck. I love a man who knows his children's books. :) The book was first published in 1950. I love that book. My little ones laughed aloud every time we read it together! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heartlikealion Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 When I hear slippery I automatically think of the Slip n Slide. I just say slide for the kind at the park. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 We used to use "sliding board" in the midwest. At some point it just became "slide." It wasn't a literal "board" even when I was a kid. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I grew up calling them sliding boards, but I call them slides now. And I called the play structure a "climbing apparatus". I'm not sure if that was my region or just my parents being weird. ETA: I'm from Eastern Maryland, and my parents are from New Jersey. I have heard "climbing apparatus," but we used to call it "monkey bars." I never hear "monkey bars" any more .... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 (edited) Speaking of old fashioned play terms, who else here sang this song as a little kid: Say, say, oh playmate,Come out and play with meAnd bring your dollies threeClimb up my apple treeSlide down my rain barrelInto my cellar doorAnd we'll be jolly friendsForever more more more more moreSay, say, oh playmateI cannot play with youMy dolly's got the fluBoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hooAin't got no rain barrelAin't got no cellar doorBut we'll be jolly friendsForever more more more more more Edited April 20, 2017 by SKL 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Speaking of old fashioned play terms, who else here sang this song as a little kid: Say, say, oh playmate, Come out and play with me And bring your dollies three Climb up my apple tree Slide down my rain barrel Into my cellar door And we'll be jolly friends Forever more more more more more Say, say, oh playmate I cannot play with you My dolly's got the flu Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo Ain't got no rain barrel Ain't got no cellar door But we'll be jolly friends Forever more more more more more We did! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I have heard "climbing apparatus," but we used to call it "monkey bars." I never hear "monkey bars" any more .... You should hear my 6yo. I do imagine that climbing apparatus is a broader category than just monkey bars, and would also encompass climbing racks, etc. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I had to vote "other" because we called it a "slicky slide." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Sliding board when I was a kid in PA. Slippery dip when my kids were living in Australia. Slide everywhere else. funny story - I grew up in Pennsylvania Dutch part of PA. As a kid I frequently heard, "Stop rutching around," or 'rutch over'. It was only when I lived in Bavaria and learned that a slide in German was rutche that I really understood that wasn't an 'everywhere' kind of word. I just had this experience with the word "jakey." My mother always used it when an outfit looked particularly mismatched or disheveled, but when I used it the other day I got some blank, blinking stares. I feel like my family set me up. I never know until those moments that something isn't commonly used. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athomeontheprairie Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I marked slide. But I've used the word chute also. Only when there are two "slides" in close proximity and one is a completely covered tunnel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I marked sliding board because that is what we called it when I was a kid in Northern Virginia. When I saw the list, I thought that sliding pond is something I heard. Now I know it was probably what my dh who grew up in northern NJ had called it. We have lived in many places and now I will usually refer to it as a slide. I still use the term monkey bars but I use that for more rectangular boxy types of climbing apparati. I now use climbing apparatus to reference other types of climbing structures such as the gigantic three story climbing half sphere my kids enjoyed while living in Belgium. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lllll Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 (edited) nm Edited May 7, 2017 by _ -_- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmostEmptyNest Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Slide in Minnesota Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ailaena Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 The stuff I learn here, I swear... :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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