Team includes novice with school playground types (6)
I believe the answer is:
slides
'playground types' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'team includes novice with school' is the wordplay.
'team' becomes 'side' (I've seen this before**).
'includes' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'novice' becomes 'l' (abbreviation for Learner e.g. on UK cars).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'school' becomes 's'.
'side' going around 'l' is 'slide'.
'slide'+'s'='SLIDES'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for slides that I've seen before include "Pieces of glass for study of specimens" , "Pieces of glass under the microscope" , "Sloping chutes in playgrounds" , "Slips, slithers" , "Sloping chutes in the playground" .)