Teeter-totter (Noun)
Meaning
A plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- Children at the park loved to ride the teeter-totter and scream with excitement as they soared through the air.
- At recess, my best friend and I always tried to find a spot on the teeter-totter where we could both get on and not tip the other person off.
- I broke my arm on the teeter-totter in third grade and was extremely sad when my parents took it down.
- Summer afternoons spent at my grandparents' house were made perfect by riding on their teeter-totter.
- Every morning the children gathered near the big tree where they played with an old but still-fun teeter-totter left there since my grandfather was young.