Here all the slides are plastic, and create a lot of electricity....

Sliding board. And to make it more slippery, rub it with waxed paper.

I grew up in NY too, probably about the same time as your pic, and we called it a sliding pond. Don't know why, though.

Slide. (SoCal)

I've heard "sliding board" but this is the first time I've heard "sliding pond". Very interesting!

I grew up in NYC too, and never heard of a sliding pond. Or maybe I've just forgotten. :-)

The apparatus in the photo is a slide. Its a medium sized one, suitable for ages 4 to 10.

When I grew up in the 1940s in a rural area, the only slides were in city parks. At that time, the bottom surface was made of galvanized steel. The zinc coating had a habit of developing a patina if it sat undisturbed for a time. It took a few trips down the slide to polish the surface before it produced a fast ride. But there was another hazard - the sun! If the slide sat in the sun for an hour or so, it became blazing hot, so the first rider had to sure he/she had on heavy jeans else you'd get a burned bottom. As it were, burns did occur if the calves of you legs touched the slide on that first trip. Before the day was out, someone would get a "floor burn", but we kept sliding. Slides were fun, right?

We called it a sliding board. We had one in elementary school that seemed like a ski jump. It took forever to climb to the top, and a drop straight down. Scary as he'll. It was a sad day to see it for the first time in 20 years. I'm pretty sure the sun shrunk it to about 1/10th it's original size:)

A slide. This is the first time I've ever heard of the term sliding pond. By your title I though you were asking if you should install a slide or something to do with a pond. LOL

It's always interesting to learn the different usages\descriptions we encounter through contact with others on the internet. ☺ A quick Google search turned up a number of hits including
Grammarphobia, which explains "sliding pond" thoughts\theories. It is apparently a term used in NY and NJ.

It is interesting to learn the different terms and words common in specific areas and times and how language changes over time. It is thought that "sliding pond" came from "slide upon" or the Dutch. It is puzzling that I completely forgot about "sliding pond" and referred to the equipment as a "slide" when I raised my children. The memories shared here called up some of my own. Kids waited in line on the stairs for their turn. I had to swing my legs over the top ledge to sit on the sliding pond. This maneuver always felt a bit precarious. Oh the burning hot metal! Ouch! Some other recollections: feeling brave and standing at the top, going down head first. Did you make slide trains? The first child hooked her feet in the rails at the top and several children sat behind and held onto the waist of the child in front, then down we went.

As a child I called it a sliding board, now I just call it a slide.

I'm from N.J., I never heard of a sliding pond, just a sliding board

Sliding pond in my area of northern New Jersey.

I have never heard the term sliding pond. We called it a sliding board when I was a child but now just a slide. Man I know about the hot sun on the metal slide. We had a really big (to us as children) slide in the park and with all the big oak trees around they put the slide right out in the open sun. Stupid move!
Many of us had a hot bottom! Now that slide seems so small. Same as the high diving board! Man I was so scared the first time I climbed way way up that ladder to the board and was shaking as I walked out to the edge. After the first few times though we got much braver. Now that thing looks medium at best. However no way I would ever attempt to climb it even if I could. My luck I would fall off the ladder and break a hip.

Aside from the towering height and sizzling bottoms. What I remember the best was the "pond" at the bottom of the slide after a rain. Everyone calling dibs for the first splash down.

There was a very tall sliding board at a lake we used to go to for family reunions. It had an old fashioned pump at the top so you could pump water onto the slide before you went down - into the water! I remember little kids crying after reaching the top because they were too afraid to go down, everyone would have to climb back down the steps to let he or she go past. Gee, hadn't thought about this for a long time. Probably considered way too dangerous now.

Our parks' play areas all seemed to be in sand. When the slide was hot, all the kids would get together and cover it with sand.

It occurs to me the probable origin of a sliding board, and it registers a 10 on the pucker scale. Back in the day of ice houses, blocks of ice ran down long wooden ramps. Sure, the wood got polished slick, but....:-)

Schoolhouse, I'll bet if young parents saw that slide they'd make you wear a helmet and pads. I ask you, how is a kid supposed to grow up under those restrictions? ;-)

We just called it a slide.

Another one from NJ who never heard of it called a sliding pond. I lived about 30 minutes north east of Philadelphia. I like posts like this, that lead to other things. I'll be giving my college roommate a call tomorrow, she grew up in Northern New Jersey, to see what she called the old inclined plane.

This is really funny! I had a big argument with my late husband about the subject. He called it a "sliding pond" and I said I never heard of such a thing, just called it a "slide". Well, now I know that some people from certain geographic areas do call it a "sliding pond". Who knows where the pond part came in. Maybe when the kids ran a lot of water down the thing. He was from Brooklyn and I was (and still am) from Long Island. And I never heard the expression again ever since his whole family passed away (except for one sister, whom I don't speak with).

Anyone have ANY idea where/why the "pond" was attached to the slide name? I really thought I would find a picture of a slide next to a small body of frozen water--or not. Slides are now deemed DANGEROUS and Insurance companies, our litigious society has made them all but scarce. Every now and again driving through small town rural America one can come across one in a city park. If you do-I urge you to stop and give it a go. They really were quite fun.

I’ve never heard of a sliding board or sliding pond. It’s always just been a slide. We slid down the slide.

it was a slide or sliding board. our sliding pond was a flooded area that froze in the winter. it wasn't big enough to skate but the kids slipped and slide around on it.

One can find discussions about anything on Google. There is really no reason to guess about the origin of the term 'sliding pond'. I've never heard the term, either, but I think that it's use was very regionally limited.

Take a look at this......very interesting! Read about how sliding pond came to be used in this country.

I've never heard of a slide being called anything but a slide. It's a slide. No pond. Kids may drown. lol

sliding board. metal ones put a "sear" on you in summer! a few slides down sitting on a hunka waxed paper added to speed.