Slide - Slide

Japanese: すべり台 - すべりだい

A fixed exercise playground equipment for infants and children. It is a playground equipment that allows children to enjoy the movement of sliding down a slope, and helps develop a sense of speed, height, and balance. Children like to climb and slide down various slopes in natural environments, but slides can be considered artificially created slopes. They were first manufactured in America around 1880 and imported to Japan at the end of the Meiji period. Generally, they are 2 to 2.5 meters high, with a running surface about 4 meters long, and have one surface (single-sided), but there are also compound types with two running surfaces and ones with a spiral running surface.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

幼児･児童向きの固定された運動遊具。斜面を滑りおりる動きを楽しむ遊具で，スピード感，高低感，平衡感覚などが養われる。子どもは，自然の環境にあるいろいろな斜面をよじのぼり，滑りおりる遊びを好むが，すべり台は人工的につくられた斜面といえる。1880年ころアメリカで初めて製作され，明治末期に日本に輸入されたという。一般には高さ2～2.5m，滑走面の長さ4mくらいで1面のもの(単式)であるが，滑走面を2面にした複式のものや，滑走面がらせん状になったものなどもある。

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