This KS2 maths article explains how parallel lines are always the same distance apart and never meet. A perpendicular line is at right angles to another line.

So parallel lines are always equidistant, and perpendicular lines meet at right angles. Okay, girls, so you use your arms and show me parallel lines. Great job.

This KS2 maths article explains how parallel lines are always the same distance apart and never meet. A perpendicular line is at right angles to another line.