What is a calm ocean region near the equator called?
Correct answer: The doldrums
WaldoLydeker
How interesting! That's where that term came from. Had no idea. I love this game.
Tincantitan1
I still remember the doldrums in the animated movie The Phantom Tollbooth, which shows how old I am!
Player #27149342 pixie
as a kid I was told by parents to stop acting like I was in the doldrums...this referred to sitting around doing nothing ha ha.
Player #1881512
Reminds me of the book the phantom tollbooth. It’s in there. But it’s just a phrase they say wen they are bored.
Player #10639782
I just thought about being in the doldrums. didn't know it was an actual word
Nannad
Used this saying a few times but never knew the origin of it although my Dad was in the Navy and got a lot of sayings from him
Player #15188857
WaldoLydeker, I agree WaldoLydeker. I have learned sooo much from playing this game,it is a jewel.
Binni ji
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wileycoyote
Calm sounds positive, doldrums sounds negative, but they are fairly the same. English is really a great language.
Horace
Mary Kowalski, I too always thought it was a state of mind and not meteorological phenomenon.
LimaOscarVictorEcho
Tincantitan1, I remember it from an episode in Outlander. it's called "The Doldrums"
Enda
I learnt this in Form 1 geography class
Mary Kowalski
Isn't DOLDRUM an old name for a low "feeling?" Sort of a sadness?
Veronica
Tincantitan1, same. that cartoon was amazing. I used to watch it over and over.
treez
notablelover, a saying here is ur down I'm the doldrums (being sad)
SQinfoNUTS
Player #1881512, there's a little more to it than that.
Player #1328939
Player #1881512, That’s the first thing I thought of too.
notablelover
WaldoLydeker, How romantic the doldrums sound. I suppose it would not work with sat. direction navigation today. ( my word )
Player #1081396
dollis1963, part of the reason Columbus's travels took so long