Make a perfect sphere out of clay with your hands (can’t do it in the first place), and then set it spinning. You’ll see the axis of rotation begin to bulge, leaving you with something that has a larger circumference around the middle than around the top.
Oblate spheroid. Don’t be pedantic.
Actually...
That's sounds crazier than flat. .lolol
Make a perfect sphere out of clay with your hands (can’t do it in the first place), and then set it spinning. You’ll see the axis of rotation begin to bulge, leaving you with something that has a larger circumference around the middle than around the top.
Oblate spheroid.