English Explanatory Dictionary

snakes and ladders

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A children's luck-based board game of Indian origin, played on a numbered grid, the aim of which is to proceed to the end, and in which ladders aid progress and snakes impede it.
  2. Any situation in which people or events go forward and backward, seemingly at random.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-snakes and ladders.wav

Word forms

snakes and ladders snakes-and-ladders

Synonyms

chutes and ladders

Related words

back to square one swings and roundabouts
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