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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
teeter-totter
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Daphne had been playing with her friend Jason on the teeter-totter.
Wiktionary
teeter-totter

alt. (context often childish English) A seesaw; a piece of playground equipment consisting of a long board with seats at either end, with a pivot point in the center. n. (context often childish English) A seesaw; a piece of playground equipment consisting of a long board with seats at either end, with a pivot point in the center. vb. (alternative form of lang=en teetertotter)

WordNet
teeter-totter

n. a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end [syn: seesaw, teeterboard, tilting board, dandle board]

Usage examples of "teeter-totter".

He held himself poised in the awareness, seeing time stretch out in its weird dimension, delicately balanced yet whirling, narrow yet spread like a net gathering countless worlds and forces, a tightwire that he must walk, yet a teeter-totter on which he balanced.

A block of it sat on the table, and she passed it over to Art and went back to arguing with her friend, while Coyote bartered on with another man, talking about teeter-totters and pots, kilograms and calories, equivalence and overburden, cubic meters per second and picobars, haggling expertly and getting a lot of laughs from the people listening.

At recess the younger children surge shouting and screaming amid the swings, the rusted teeter-totters, the wicked monkey bars-where the nastiest accidents happen, or are caused to happen.

Farther on, a cluster of hardwoods and spruce shaded a play area for small children, replete with swings and monkey bars and teeter-totters and painted animals on heavy springs set in concrete that you could climb aboard and ride.

A small square of closely cropped grass, a few red oaks with crispy leaves clinging to naked branches, a rusty swing set, a pair of weathered teeter-totters, and a sandbox used more by neighborhood cats than children.

He hit each tree at least twice before trotting back, tongue lolling, to where Grace waited for him by the teeter-totters, her back pressed against the firm trunk of the largest oak, her eyes as busy as the dog's legs had been.