Rollercoaster vs. Seesaw — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Rollercoaster and Seesaw
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Definitions
Rollercoaster
A steep, sharply curving elevated railway with small open passenger cars that is operated at high speeds as a ride, especially in an amusement park.
Seesaw
A seesaw (also known as a teeter-totter or teeterboard) 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.
Rollercoaster
An action, event, or experience marked by abrupt, extreme changes in circumstance, quality, or behavior
"the demographic roller coaster caused by the baby boom" (American Demographics).
Seesaw
A long plank balanced on a central fulcrum so that with a person riding on each end, one end goes up as the other goes down. Also called regionally dandle, dandle board, teedle board, teeter, teeterboard, teeter-totter, tilt1, tilting board.
Rollercoaster
An amusement ride consisting of a buggy on a track that rises, falls, twists and turns.
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Seesaw
The act or game of riding a seesaw.
Rollercoaster
Any situation in which there are ups and downs, or violent changes.
Our relationship was quite a rollercoaster. Finally, I had enough of it and left her.
The stock market has been quite the rollercoaster in the last few weeks.
Seesaw
A back-and-forth or up-and-down movement.
Seesaw
An action or process in which something repeatedly changes from one condition or situation to another
The seesaw in temperatures.
Seesaw
To play on a seesaw.
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Seesaw
To move back and forth or up and down.
Seesaw
To change back and forth from one condition or situation to another
The lead seesawed for much of the tennis match.
Seesaw
A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
Seesaw
A series of up-and-down movements.
Seesaw
A series of alternating movements or feelings.
Seesaw
An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.
Seesaw
(intransitive) To use a seesaw.
Seesaw
To fluctuate.
Seesaw
(transitive) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
Seesaw
Fluctuating.
Seesaw
A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.
Seesaw
A plank or board adjusted for this play.
Seesaw
A vibratory or reciprocating motion.
He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a seesaw between the hypothesis and fact.
Seesaw
Same as Crossruff.
Seesaw
To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.
Seesaw
To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
He seesaws himself to and fro.
Seesaw
Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.
Seesaw
A plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
Seesaw
Ride on a plank
Seesaw
Move up and down as if on a seesaw
Seesaw
Move unsteadily, with a rocking motion