What do you call it?

3xsthefun wrote: We got the girls a new swing set on Saturday. Well Rob called on Friday to check prices at one store. He was talking to some guy and he was explaining the different sets to Rob. The funny part is the guy called the slide a "sled thing" it really got to Rob though. Because he has never called it anything else but a sliding board.

So this got me thinking what do you call it? All I've ever heard it called and called it myself is a slide. But I thought maybe some people call it something else. Especially since Rob calls it a sliding board.

C&K*s Mommie replied: We call the slide a slide, and the swing set a swing set.

Nina J replied: Slide, because you slide down it

Boo&BugsMom replied: I always thought the universal term was slide.

Kaitlin'smom replied: never heard it called anything but a slide

3xsthefun replied: Hmm..interesting. Looks like so far no one else calls them sliding boards. I never heard them called that until I met Rob. So I thought maybe other people may call them that. But maybe not?

A&A'smommy replied: Slide or sliding board but usually just slide...

CantWait replied: A slide is a thing at a park.
A sled is something you go down hills in the snow (or a taboggan).
I don't know what a sliding board is....

MoonMama replied: slide

cameragirl21 replied: ok, now i have that song Slide by the Goo Goo Dolls in my head.
i love that song btw.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: I call it a Glissade. Pronounced Glee-Sad

lol

3xsthefun replied: Looks like about everyone just calls it a slide. That is pretty interesting.

I never really thought about it until Saturday and he was calling it a sliding board. He had called them that before but I never heard anyone else call them that except for his parents.

Least now I know at least one other person calls it a sliding board sometimes.

Rocky, wow that is interesting. Is that a french word for slide?

mckayleesmom replied: Slide

jacobsmama replied: slide

Boys r us replied: We call it slide or sliding board. I voted slide b/c for the most part, it's just easier and shorter to say...so we usually just say slide. But I guess my personal view on it, is that at least I've always thought the SLIDING BOARD was the actual name of it, but like a lot of other terms, laziness takes over, so we shorten it to slide.

J-rod replied:
exactly what i was going to say!

i remember in school the teachers said sliding board....but if i can say slide i say slide. easier.

coasterqueen replied: I've never heard it called anything but a slide.

TheOaf66 replied: I guess I have never put that much thought into it because it wasn't worth the effort; as Dr Cox from Scrubs would say..."I care so little I nearly passed out"

Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Yes... lol

I don't think I've ever actually had to pick an english word for it, until now.

3xsthefun replied:
Ok Thought it might have been, but was not for sure.

3xsthefun replied:
Your probably right. I just thought Rob called it that because of where he grew up at. But your most likely right.

Calimama replied: Slide here too!