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Subject: Help! What do you call this....?

Written By: Zella on 06/24/05 at 5:35 pm

Picture this:

Imagine standing and looking at a standard swingset (the traditional kind, not those modern wooden jungle gym things with ladders and nets and trapezes that do everything  but sing and dance). At one end is a small sliding board. In the middle are two basic swings. And at the far end is an apparatus which has two hard metal seats facing each other and a footrest and handholds and two people sit on it and swing back and forth...

What is that thing called?    ???

Subject: Re: Help! What do you call this....?

Written By: Paul on 06/24/05 at 5:43 pm

If memory serves, we used to know it as a 'push-pull', basically because of its way of momentum - one end would push forward whilst t'other would pull back...

But that was just me and my sisters - it may well vary everywhere...

Subject: Re: Help! What do you call this....?

Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 06/24/05 at 5:44 pm


If memory serves, we used to know it as a 'push-pull', basically because of its way of momentum - one end would push forward whilst t'other would pull back...

But that was just me and my sisters - it may well vary everywhere...


That term sounds familiar to me, too.  :)

Subject: Re: Help! What do you call this....?

Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/24/05 at 6:11 pm

It might be called a pendulum swing.





Cat

Subject: Re: Help! What do you call this....?

Written By: Tam on 06/24/05 at 6:12 pm

I believe they are actually called Gliders or Face-to-face Gliders.

Gliders - feet are underneath and you sit on a seat that looks like its from a bicycle

Face-to-face Gliders - the type I believe you are talking about!

Cheers

Tam

Subject: Re: Help! What do you call this....?

Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 06/24/05 at 8:57 pm

OH...I used to LOVE those things! We had a swingset when we were younger...and it had one of those things on it....we called them gliders.


Erin :)

Subject: Re: Help! What do you call this....?

Written By: gemini61 on 06/24/05 at 8:59 pm

Yep, we called them gliders too.  :)

Subject: Re: Help! What do you call this....?

Written By: whitewolf on 06/24/05 at 9:42 pm

around here we always called them a see-saw

Subject: Re: Help! What do you call this....?

Written By: BrianMannixGirl on 06/25/05 at 1:16 am

When I had one as a kid we called them Push Me Pull You's.

Subject: Re: Help! What do you call this....?

Written By: TC1970 on 06/25/05 at 5:21 am

I know what you mean. We called them gliders too.  When in doubt,  thingamagig always works for me.

Subject: Re: Help! What do you call this....?

Written By: TC1970 on 06/25/05 at 5:23 am

By the posted age classification you ate not old 40-64 - Middle-aged.  :P

* sorry for going off topic.

Subject: Re: Help! What do you call this....?

Written By: Jennifer028 on 06/25/05 at 12:40 pm

I've never seen one of those...

But do ya'll remember Pumper swings?  A metal looking box one person sits in and pulls and pumps these metal handles to get going really fast.

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