Assuming the 5 year old already knows Threads ;-)
A coroutine is an instance of suspendable computation. It is conceptually similar to a thread, in the sense that it takes a block of code to run that works concurrently with the rest of the code. However, a coroutine is not bound to any particular thread. It may suspend its execution in one thread and resume in another one.
That was from https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coroutines-basics.html#your-first-coroutine
Let’s translate that.
There is a long street with banks, offices, shops, restaurants, schools along the way. You and your neighbors and friends and family's and perfect strangers, all of you living at that street have a job.
Now you start from home and take a Taxi. Midway, you have to stop at the bank to draw some cash. You hop off the taxi, because you don’t want to keep it waiting. Taxi is now free to give a ride to some one else with a job.
Once you are finished with your work in bank, you come out, wave at another Taxi that was waiting nearby and move along.
You all are Coroutines. Taxis are Threads.
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