Seesaw

Quick meaning: Seesaw is a noun meaning A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.

Meaning

A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) A series of up-and-down movements.
2. (figurative) A series of alternating movements or feelings.
3. (intransitive) To use a seesaw.
4. (intransitive, figuratively, by extension) To fluctuate.
5. (transitive, figuratively) To cause to move backward and forward in a seesaw fashion.
6. (medicine, attributively) An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.
7. (chess) A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks.

Example Sentences

He see-saws himself to and fro.

When I think of your kisses / My mind see-saws

He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a see-saw between the hypothesis and the fact.

Manchester Citykept up their unbeaten start to the Premier League season with victory over QPR in an entertaining see-saw encounter at Loftus Road.

Word Forms

• seesaws
• see-saw
• seesawing
• seesawed

Synonyms for seesaw

Depending on context, synonyms include teeter-totter, windmill, totter, teeterboard, teeter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include teeterboard, teeter, totter, ride, swing, fluctuate.

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