Definitions for seesaw

• Definition
• Anagrams (50)

seesaw see·saw

Spelling: [see-saw]

IPA: /ˈsiˌsɔ/

Seesaw is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in seesaw (aeessw).

Definitions for seesaw

noun

1. a recreation in which two children alternately ride up and down while seated at opposite ends of a plank balanced at the middle.
2. a plank or apparatus for this recreation.
3. an up-and-down or a back-and-forth movement or procedure.
4. Whist. a crossruff.

adjective

1. moving up and down, back and forth, or alternately ahead and behind:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to move in a seesaw manner.

verb (used without object)

1. to move in a seesaw manner:
2. to ride or play on a seesaw.
3. to keep changing one's decision, opinion, or attitude; vacillate.

Origin of seesaw

1630-40 as part of a jingle accompanying a children's game; gradational compound based on saw¹

Examples for seesaw

We'd be out on the seesaw, but old Miss didn't know what we doin'.

Absent a complete ban, or total irrationality, judges should simply step off the seesaw.

If the government infringes a protected right, one side of the seesaw goes in the air and the right is lifted and protected.

That's the way of the world, though, seesaw, one up and the other down.

He pressed him to end the seesaw policy of the last six months.

They are blame and guilt, and they are like the two ends of a seesaw.

After months of seesaw battles in the Sahara Desert, Libya's rebels are now making their first serious push to Tripoli.

They seesaw backward and forward, first one way and then the other.

A heavy timber which they lifted from across his back, where it had lain like a seesaw, must have all but broken his spine.

The boys also spin tops, and they play "seesaw," and jump the rope.