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seesaw
[see-saw]
noun
a recreation in which two children alternately ride up and down while seated at opposite ends of a plank balanced at the middle.
a plank or apparatus for this recreation.
an up-and-down or a back-and-forth movement or procedure.
Whist.a crossruff.
adjective
moving up and down, back and forth, or alternately ahead and behind.
It was a seesaw game with the lead changing hands many times.
verb (used without object)
to move in a seesaw manner.
The boat seesawed in the heavy sea.
to ride or play on a seesaw.
to keep changing one's decision, opinion, or attitude; vacillate.
verb (used with object)
to cause to move in a seesaw manner.
seesaw
/ ˈːˌɔː /
noun
a plank balanced in the middle so that two people seated on the ends can ride up and down by pushing on the ground with their feet
the pastime of riding up and down on a seesaw
an up-and-down or back-and-forth movement
( as modifier )
a seesaw movement
verb
(intr) to move up and down or back and forth in such a manner; oscillate
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of seesaw1
Example Sentences
They have looked on the tempests of war, economic turmoil, civil unrest and seesawing politics and remained, as Shakespeare said, an ever-fixed mark, adapting to atmospheric shifts but essentially unchanged.
Part of this is the sluggishly incremental nature of Laughton’s writing that filters everything through seesaw dialogue.
Yet for travelers, industry veterans say, this seesaw experience won’t make an immediate difference to the cost of flights or lodgings in Mexico or Canada.
Twin American interests are at stake that sit in tension with one another, like a massive foreign policy seesaw.
When these waves interact with our mountains and existing weather patterns, they create this persistent seesaw effect between the coasts.
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