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⚖️ A playground toy ↕️ To go up and down ⚖️ To ride up and down
to seesaw

to seesaw

1.4
To ride up and down on a long board balanced in the middle with another person
  • verb
  • /ˈsiːsɔː/
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  • To enjoy the warm weather, she decided to seesaw with her friends until sunset.

Examples

  • Mose and I seesaw all the time.

    Dark Heart (2006)

  • They seesawed across the snow toward the ski lift.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The children took turns as they seesawed at the playground, laughing with joy.

  • On sunny afternoons, they love to seesaw in the park, creating a rhythmic motion.

Synonyms

to teeter-totter
vsto seesaw
  • US
5.5

To ride on a long board balanced in the middle so one end goes up as the other goes down

refers specifically to a long narrow board used mainly for children's play

Antonyms

to stand still
75 1.0

Stay upright in one place without moving

How Active

to jump
∞ 1.0
to swing
408 1.0
to seesaw
1.4
to rock
230 1.0
to sit
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

seesaw infinitive
seesawed past
seesawed past participle
seesawing present participle
seesaws third person singular

Etymology

Seesaw as a verb meaning 'to ride' comes from the toy's name and the moving sound see-saw; a helpful way to remember is that to 'seesaw' is to sit on the board and go up and down with another person.