sliding board
- noun
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- The house, a split-level ranch situated in a quiet stretch of Garden City, stood just beyond the crowd of customers, between a wooded area and a playground dotted with weeds, where an old metal sliding board pointed to the sky and a geodesic jungle gym rusted in the corner.
Examples
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I guess it's the older models we had like the glass sliding board, but it's really plastic, right.
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How many sliding boards does this nigga need?
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- Where that big sliding board is?
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"For this transfer, I use a sliding board," pointing to it leaning up against the night table beside her.
Fiction book (2002) -
The children experienced an outdoor play session twice a day on a playground where they had access to climbing bars, four swings, three sliding boards, and two climbing ladders.
Academic text (2015) -
On playgrounds, they don't have seesaws, they don't have sliding boards, and they don't have real high swings that we used to enjoy.
Academic text (2004) -
The kids lined up eagerly to take turns on the sliding board at the playground.
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After several attempts, she finally slid down the sliding board with a big smile on her face.
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He watched as his son zoomed down the sliding board, laughing with joy.
Synonyms
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A smooth sloping surface children go down for fun
A smooth sloping surface at a playground for children to go down
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Morphology
The meaning 'a playground apparatus for sliding down' is directly and transparently derived from 'sliding' (designed for smooth movement) modifying 'board' (a flat piece). This is a straightforward compositional compound that indicates the board's function, a pattern cross-linguistically common and easily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Sliding board paints a simple picture: a smooth, sloping board you climb and use for sliding down. Because it is a board for sliding, the name came to mean the playground equipment children go down for fun.