What goes up and down but always remains in
the same place
Answers
Explanation:
I believe the traditional answer to this riddle is a staircase. It remains in the same location but can be used to go up or down.
In this way, you could also answer with a secured ladder or possibly even an escalator, ferris wheel, or elevator shaft. These things are not unmoving, but do remain in the same place (unless your ferris wheel is the pack-and-go sort used for county fairs and the like).
Elevators begin to make me think of other things you can travel vertically - holes, wells, trails up the side of mountains.
In our language, we tend to say anything vertical “goes up and down,” which can create a broad scope for acceptable answers.
Alternatively, we can answer with stationary objects that take readings which increase and decrease (ie thermostats).
Then there is the Sun, going up and down in the sky as it rises and sets, but remaining in the same place in our solar system (unless you consider that the sun and everything in our solar system is actually traveling at 514,000 mph away from the center of the universe - but then that staircase is hardly in the same place anymore either).
Explanation:
My answer for this can also be a mountain. A mountain also goes up, comes down, but is always found in the same place. Hope it ...