The Clue
Playground equipment (6 letter answer)
The Answer
SLIDES
Tags
Notes
The answer SLIDES is seen occasionally, appearing about once every 750 puzzles.
Related Clues
Chutes
Glissades
Transparencies
Begins to fail
Lab items
Playground adjuncts
Projector inserts
Vacation mementos
Vacation souvenirs
Amusement park features
Returned-tourists' showings
They've been framed
Travel-lecture standbys
Equipment next to swings and seesaws
Some jungle gym exits
Definition
SLIDE as a noun:
1. (slide, microscope slide) = a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
2. (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.
3. (swoop, slide) = (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale; "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"
4. plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
5. (slide, glide, coast) = the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"
6. (slide, lantern slide) = a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
7. (chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough) = sloping channel through which things can descend
SLIDE as a verb:
1. (skid, slip, slue, slew, slide) = move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"
2. (slither, slide) = to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly; "They slid through the wicket in the big gate"
3. move smoothly along a surface; "He slid the money over to the other gambler"