TRIVIAL PURSUITS: Is It the Banisters People Slide Down?

What is wrong with the sentence, “The boy slid down the banisters”?

People don’t slide down banisters. The part they slide down is called the handrail.

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Banisters are the uprights that hold up the handrail.

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