water slide

or wa·ter·slide

[ waw-ter slahyd, wot-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a wet slide that ends in a pool or other area of water, especially a long, twisting slide or chute at a water park:
I like the water slides where you ride down on a tube, but my favorites are the ones you just sit directly on.

First recorded in 1885–90

For those who like to do their swimming indoors, the estate has a massive indoor swimming pool with waterfalls and a water slide.

The stream looked smaller, and the water-slide less terrible, than they seemed in the book.

With that, I girt up my breeches anew, and slung the fish tighter round my neck, and began to climb up through the water-slide.

So I lay watching the cruel water slide past, while a host of impossible schemes flashed through my bewildered brain.

There was one, a water-slide rather than a fall, which I stopped long to admire.

And so should we, my sons,” said the big fellow, “if we had gone down that water-slide on the first raft.

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