When you carry a kid on your back, that's a "piggyback ride" but what do you call if...
Hey good evening fellow English learners and native speakers!

When you carry a kid on your back, that's a "piggyback ride" but what do you call when you carry a young kid around your shoulders/neck? Thank you.

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When you carry a kid on your back, that's a "piggyback ride" but what do you call if...
Hey good evening fellow English learners and native speakers!

When you carry a kid on your back, that's a "piggyback ride" but what do you call when you carry a young kid around your shoulders/neck? Thank you.

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I've never heard anyone use a specific word for carrying someone on your back. We normally just say "he carried her on his shoulders"

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You usually use the same term (piggyback) and say I'll carry you piggyback on my shoulders, or even just 'piggyback' and be no more specific.

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There is a phrase in Cantonese that describes the „Shoulder ride“. It is „keh bok ma“. So the original phrase „keh ma“ is to ride a horse. „Bok“ is first character of „bok tau“ meaning shoulder. So the literal translation is „ride shoulder horse“. Cheers!

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My son does it all the time with his kids. We don't have any special name for it. We just call it "giving them a ride on his shoulders."

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I remember calling it a 'shoulder ride' when I was a kid. But it doesn't have a fancy name that I know of.

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