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slippery dip
noun a piece of playground equipment with an inclined smooth slope for children to slide down. Compare slide, slippery slide.
Contributor's comments: Just this very day, noted the use of the term 'slippery dip' by our visitors and their two year old child from South Australia. As a child brought up in Victoria, the term used was always 'slide'.
Contributor's comments: This is a common expression in Brisbane also.
Contributor's comments: Otherwise known as a slide, an item of playground equipment: "The kids enjoyed sliding down the slippery dip."
Contributor's comments: A manufacurer of fibreglass slides from Melbourne told me once that he had only ever heard this term from residents of NSW - but he didn't sell to SA so that might account for his not having heard it from other states.
Contributor's comments: I was born in Sydney and this is the term which was always used. I moved to Perth WA in 1987 and found that when I used this term no one knew what I was talking about. Perth people refer to a slippery dip as a slide.
Contributor's comments: All public council playgrounds in Sydney's western suburbs have slippery dips (NEVER slides).
Contributor's comments: My children also noted that "slippery dip" which they knew in South Australia was not understood here in southeast Melbourne.
Contributor's comments: Growing up in rural New South Wales in the fifties, it was always called a slippery dip.