Amusement ride
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An amusement ride is any number of devices found at carnivals, fairs/funfairs, or amusement parks meant to appeal to various senses of the rider.
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[edit] Types
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[edit] Amusement Park rides
Larger rides, normally only found in amusement parks
- Balloon Race / Samba Balloon
- Condor
- Corkscrew roller coaster.
- Dark rides
- Disk-O
- Drop towers
- Enterprise
- Ferris wheels or Big wheels
- Frisbees
- House of mirrors
- Looping Starship / Space Shuttle
- Megadrop
- Motion platforms
- Observation towers
- Pirate Ship / Pharaoh's Fury / Sea Ray
- Roller coasters
- switchbacks
- Horror train
- Sightseeing trains
- Sky Swat
- Screamin' Swing
- Swing Around / Apollo 2000
- Swing Rides
- Teacups
- Topple Tower
- Top Scan
- Top Spin
- Train rides
- Troika / Scorpion
- Tumble Bug
- Water Rides
[edit] Carnival or Funfair/Fair rides
Traditional and transportable rides found at Carnivals/Fairs, many of which may also be found in amusement parks
- 1001 Nacht / Ali Baba / Falling Star / Joker / Rainbow
- Breakdance
- Bumper cars or Dodgems
- Carousels or Merry-go-round
- Cliffhanger / Kite Flyer / Fly Away
- Crazy Wave / Gee Whiz / Moby Dick
- Dive bomber
- Evolution
- Freak Out
- Funhouses
- Fun Slide
- Ghost train
- Gravitron / Starship 2000
- Saturn 6 / Hurricane / Downdraft
- Helter Skelter or Slide
- Jump and smile
- Kamikaze
- Kiddie ride
- KMG Afterburner (Fireball)
- Matterhorn / Flying Bobs
- Music Express / Himalaya / Rock N Roll / Silver Streak
- Orbiter
- Octopus / Monster / Polyp / Spider
- Paratrooper or Umbrella Ride / Force 10
- Power Surge
- Reverse bungee
- Ranger
- Rock-O-Plane
- Rotor
- Round Up / Zero Gravity
- Ring of Fire / Larson Fireball
- Scrambler / Sizzler/ Twist
- Simulator
- Speed
- Spin Out
- Super star
- Tilt-A-Whirl
- Train rides, "kiddie ride" type
- UFO
- Waltzer
- Whip
- Wipeout / Trabant
- Zipper
[edit] Amusement ride manufactures
Most new amusement rides are innovations of one of the major amusement ride manufactures, and in fact many ride types are virtually brand names for particular product line.
From time to time, individual rides are manufactured or reproduced by large engineering companies, but the major manufactures in the history of amusement rides are:
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- UK National Fairground Archive ride histories.
- fairground-rides.co.uk database of UK fairground rides.
