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seesaw
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thumb|250px|Seesaw in 1792 painting by Francisco de Goya thumb|250px|A set of conjoined playground seesaws
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thumb|250px|Seesaw in 1792 painting by Francisco de Goya thumb|250px|A set of conjoined playground seesaws
A see saw (also sometimes known as a teeter-totter in North America) is a long, narrow board supported by a single pivot point, most commonly located at the midpoint between both ends; as one end goes up, the other goes down. These are most commonly found at parks and school playgrounds.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “seesaw” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.