Picture this:

Imagine standing and looking at a standard swingset (the traditional kind, not those modern wooden jungle gym things with ladders and nets and trapezes that do everything  but sing and dance). At one end is a small sliding board. In the middle are two basic swings. And at the far end is an apparatus which has two hard metal seats facing each other and a footrest and handholds and two people sit on it and swing back and forth...

What is that thing called?    ???

If memory serves, we used to know it as a 'push-pull', basically because of its way of momentum - one end would push forward whilst t'other would pull back...

But that was just me and my sisters - it may well vary everywhere...

If memory serves, we used to know it as a 'push-pull', basically because of its way of momentum - one end would push forward whilst t'other would pull back...

But that was just me and my sisters - it may well vary everywhere...


That term sounds familiar to me, too.  :)

It might be called a pendulum swing.





Cat

I believe they are actually called Gliders or Face-to-face Gliders.

Gliders - feet are underneath and you sit on a seat that looks like its from a bicycle

Face-to-face Gliders - the type I believe you are talking about!

Cheers

Tam

OH...I used to LOVE those things! We had a swingset when we were younger...and it had one of those things on it....we called them gliders.


Erin :)

Yep, we called them gliders too.  :)

around here we always called them a see-saw

When I had one as a kid we called them Push Me Pull You's.

I know what you mean. We called them gliders too.  When in doubt,  thingamagig always works for me.

By the posted age classification you ate not old 40-64 - Middle-aged.  :P

* sorry for going off topic.

I've never seen one of those...

But do ya'll remember Pumper swings?  A metal looking box one person sits in and pulls and pumps these metal handles to get going really fast.