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Meanings of seesaw in inglés

ruso
качели-балансир
portugués
balancé
catalán
palanca
español
balancin
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A plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end.

balancin
catalán
balancejar
español
tambalear

Move unsteadily, with a rocking motion.

tambalear
Synonyms
Examples for "totter"
Examples for "totter"
1
At the first step of the horse Mr. Podington began to totter.
The Best American Humorous Short Stories
2
But the company continues to totter on an uncomfortably high earnings multiple.
Reuters
3
When it was done she could hardly totter out of the office.
Lady Rose's Daughter
4
He pulled Himself together in order to totter a few steps farther.
I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
5
This question made Eleanore's ideas of order and duty quake and totter.
The Goose Man

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 inglés
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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