Translation for "see-saws" to spanish

See-saws

noun

• balancín
• subibaja
• vaivén

Translation examples

balancín noun

The machine was all glass retorts and valves and delicately balanced see-saws.
La máquina estaba hecha con retortas de cristal, válvulas y balancines cuidadosamente equilibrados.

Kids would be able to learn from see-saws that pumped water and sent chrome balls whirling;
Los niños podían aprender viendo balancines bombeando agua y haciendo girar pelotas de cromo;

vaivén noun

(For that was the way his mind worked now, in violent see-saws from life to death stopping at nothing in between, so that the biographer must not stop either, but must fly as fast as he can and so keep pace with the unthinking passionate foolish actions and sudden extravagant words in which, it is impossible to deny, Orlando at this time of his life indulged.)
(Pues de ese modo trabajaba ahora su mente en vaivenes bruscos de la vida a la muerte, sin demorarse en el camino, de suerte que su biógrafo no debe demorarse tampoco, sino correr con toda la rapidez posible y acompasar el paso a las acciones espontáneas y tontas y a las súbitas palabras extravagantes en que abundaba entonces Orlando.)