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sand toy

sand toy

1.0
A small object children use to play with sand, like a bucket or shovel
  • noun
translation icon : juguete de arena
  • Okay, for physical activity, we have some sand toys and balls.

It's just a bucket with like loads of sand toys and shovels and stuff.

Examples

  • It's just a bucket with like loads of sand toys and shovels and stuff.

    Emily Norris

  • The children happily built castles with their sand toys at the beach.

  • We took our sand toys to the park so the kids could play in the sandbox.

  • At the beach, I bought my daughter a colorful set of sand toys including buckets and shovels.

Synonyms

toy
vssand toy
∞ 1.0

An object made for children to play with, like a doll or car

is designed for playing specifically in sand at beaches or sandpits

Surface Forms

sand toy singular
sand toys plural

Morphology

sand + toy

The meaning 'a toy designed for playing with sand' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'sand' (material/setting) + 'toy' (play object) with no idiomatic or metaphorical shift. This material+object compounding is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be predictable to a B1 learner who knows both words.

Etymology

Sand toy comes from the simple idea of a toy for sand, such as buckets, shovels, and molds children use to make castles at the beach. So, sand toy means any small toy made for 'playing in the sand'.