On a playground is there a sandbox or a sandpit?
How do you call these sand things kids make there? I found a translation "a sand pie" but then I learnt it's not used.
Also how do you call plastic molds that kids use for that? And all showels and rakes.
Might see a stupid question but today I was wondering while being on a playground about all the names that these kid's things have in English.
- Bulis
5 апта бұрын
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![]() | Bulis4 апта бұрын No, sand castlea are different. I mean a castle is a castle with walls and things, usually buckets are used to make them. Or hands. And these are like pies. Ok, I guess these things don't have a name in English. Because here these are different things. |
AussieInBg3 апта бұрын No worries!
I think the thing that is confusing you is the collocation ”sand” + ”castle”.
Sometimes collocations lose their original literal meaning, like in this case.
Bulis4 апта бұрын Well, still I don’t think one can name a sandcastle one single thing from sand. Like a sculpture made with a plastic mold.
We have a special word here so I thought maybe there is a term in English.
Anyway, thank you for your anwer
AussieInBg4 апта бұрын We would actually call them sandcastles, even if they don’t have a distinct structure such as square walls or towers. They’re not always made with buckets
”Sandcastle”/ ”Sand castle” has become a pretty generic term for anything you make out of sand on the beach that is higher than the beach itself. It similarly gets used for what kids shape in sandpits.
![]() | AussieInBg4 апта бұрын The things make by kids you refer to are called ”sand castles”. ”Sand pit”/”sandpit” tends to be more frequently used in British English whereas ”sandbox” is more common in American English, in my experience. |
![]() | Houssamza4 апта бұрын To answer your question I believe Sandpit fits more in common dialect. |