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slide
noun a piece of playground equipment with an inclined smooth slope for children to slide down. Compare slippery dip, slippery slide.
Contributor's comments: Also used in Perth.
Contributor's comments: I'd never heard of a slippery dip until my wife (who is from NSW) and I had kids. We are now locked in a battle to embed our own word into our children's psyches. As we live in Melbourne, I am pleased to say that 'slide' is winning.
Contributor's comments: I've only ever heard the term 'slide' in Melbourne.
Contributor's comments: The term "slide" was always the one we used when I was growing up in Melbourne. For the last 20 years I have worked in Melbourne schools as a speech pathologist and the kids still use this as the word. I've been annoyed when an articulation test designed in Sydney used the term "slippery dip". We don't say that here.
Contributor's comments: "Slide" was always used when i was growing up in central Victoria in the 1950s.
Contributor's comments: It's always been a slippery dip in Adelaide.
Contributor's comments: The word slide was used in Melbourne, but the word slippery dip meant something different to me (I grew up in Melbourne). A few travelling circuses had a slippery dip ride which consisted of a large slide and you had to sit on a mat in order to slide down them. There was a similar slippery dip in The Magic Far-away Tree series of books by Enid Blighton (UK) so this is what a slippery dip meant to me.
Contributor's comments: Yeh!, difference in Perth was a slide was a playground thing, a slippery dip was a show ground thing - larger then a slide.
Contributor's comments: My wife (who grew up in Hobart, Tasmania) uses the word 'slide' whereas I (from Sydney) use the term 'slippery dip'. We now live in SE Queensland, but I have not yet worked out the local term. I think my wife's influence is winning with our children.
Contributor's comments: Growing up in Brisbane we always used "slippery slide"