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Meanings of seesaw in English

Russian
качели-балансир
Portuguese
balancé
Catalan
palanca
Spanish
balancin
Wikidata

A plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end.

качели-балансир
Catalan
balancejar
Spanish
tambalear

Move unsteadily, with a rocking motion.

balancejar
Synonyms
Examples for "teeter"
Examples for "teeter"
1
At times it is allowed to teeter dangerously close to self consciousness.
The Guardian
2
For some black millennials, their lives teeter on the edge of catastrophe.
The Guardian
3
In fact they often teeter over when it comes to the law book.
The Irish Times
4
His departure could see Mrs May's government teeter closer to a general election.
News.com.au
5
Height is good but you don't want to tower or teeter.
The Irish Times
1
He looked longingly at the teeter-totter and swings, the monkey bars and sandbox.
Her mother's hope
2
They didn't seem particularly interested in playing on a teeter-totter.
Transgression: a novel of love and war
3
Nobody has gone near a teeter-totter since .
The new yorker
4
It fits right in with my teeter-totter monkeys.
Up in the air
5
It was no more stable than a teeter-totter.
Cat’s Cradle
1
The terminal plates were connected in the middle with the band-like portion of the protrusions like the board of a seesaw ( tilting board).
Pubmed
2
Unstable support surfaces used during therapy were physio balls, balance pads, air cushions, tilting boards, and slings.
Pubmed

An apparatus composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, with seats at both end, used for a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.

Usage of seesaw in English
1
We used to have a seesaw in the Original World, you know.
Dark Universe
2
He felt the delicate change of balance as when a seesaw moves.
East of eden
3
From start to finish it was a seesaw affair, and immensely complicated.
The tudors: the complete story of england's most notorious dynas...
4
The tough metal was visibly undulating as the structure's seesaw fluctuations increased.
The Reality Dysfunction
5
The kids on the seesaw watched us leave, shaking their middle fingers.
Mysterious Skin
6
The S&P energy index .SPNY had a seesaw session as oil prices oscillated.
Reuters
7
The trade seemed linked, like a seesaw; when oil surged, banking shares fell.
Reuters
8
Political activists are at one end of the seesaw, Meisel at the other.
The new yorker
9
The seesaw continued, but at least the BaaBaas had a sense of humour.
The South African
10
He pressed him to end the seesaw policy of the last six months.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
11
Then we had it back and forth, a regular seesaw game.
A Yankee in the Trenches
12
I caught it, and I'm on the lower end of the IQ seesaw.
Chelsea chelsea bang bang
13
One end of the seesaw had to be up and the other down.
The house
14
There was a seesaw handle in the center of the square.
The gunslinger
15
It balanced there like a seesaw, slowly rocking back and forth.
Repo men
16
They're on a seesaw; Eccles goes up, he comes down.
Rabbit, run
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