School lied about playground equipment (5)
I believe the answer is:
slide
'playground equipment' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'school lied about' is the wordplay.
'school' becomes 's' (**).
'about' indicates an anagram.
'lied' is an anagram of 'lide'.
's'+'lide'='SLIDE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for slide that I've seen before include "Transparency" , "Idles about on children's chute" , "Drop" , "Picture" , "leading to a fall" .)