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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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Types
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Amusement Park rides
Larger rides, normally only found in amusement/theme parks
- anchors away
- Balloon Race / Samba Balloon
- Condor
- Dark rides
- Disk-O
- Drop towers
- Enterprise
- Ferris wheels or Big wheels
- Frisbees
- House of mirrors
- Insanity
- Launched FreeFall
- Log ride
- Looping Starship / Space Shuttle
- Megadrop
- Motion platforms
- Observation towers
- Pirate Ship / Pharaoh's Fury / Sea Ray
- Roller coasters
- switchback
- Horror train
- Sightseeing trains
- Sky Swat
- Spider
- Looper
- Tip Top
- Screamin' Swing
- Reverse bungee (slingshot)
- Swing Around / Apollo 2000
- Swing Rides
- Teacups
- Topple Tower
- Top Spin
- Troika / Scorpion
- Tumble Bug
Carnival or Funfair/Fair/Fairground 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 (also called Flying Carpet)
- Breakdance
- Bumper cars or Dodgems
- Carousels or Merry-go-round
- Chair-O-Planes - swing ride
- Chaos
- Crazy shake
- Cliffhanger / Kite Flyer / Fly Away
- Crazy Wave / Gee Whiz / Moby Dick
- Cobra (Venture Rides)
- Dive bomber
- Enterprise (also called Millennium)
- Evolution
- Flying Coaster (also called Ski Jump or Kangaroo)
- Freak Out
- Funhouses
- Fun Slide
- Ghost train
- Gravitron / Starship 2000
- Saturn 6 / Hurricane / Downdraft
- Helter Skelter or Slide
- Jump and smile
- Insanity
- Kamikaze
- Kiddie ride
- KMG Afterburner (Fireball)
- Matterhorn / Flying Bobs
- Miami
- Music Express / Himalaya / Rock N Roll / Silver Streak
- Magnum
- Orbiter
- Octopus / Monster / Polyp / Spider
- Paratrooper or Umbrella Ride / Force 10
- Power Surge
- Quasar (also called swing)
- Reverse bungee (also called slingshot or ejection seat)
- Ranger
- Rock-O-Plane
- Rotor
- Round Up / Zero Gravity
- Ring of Fire / Larson Fireball
- Scrambler / Sizzler/ Twist (also called Twister)
- Simulator
- Shoot the Chute (Water Flumes etc)
- Skydiver
- Sky Wheel / Skywheel
- Speed
- Spin Out (also known as Move-It)
- Super star
- Suzi Symphony's Happy Harmonies (held in the Orleans County Fair)
- Tagada (riders sit in a large bowl, in which it spins round and jolts about)
Thrillers (big coasters etc)
- Tilt-A-Whirl
- Tip-top (similar to a Paratrooper, but the ride sends passengers upside down)
- Toboggan
- Tornado
- Train rides, "kiddie ride" type
- Twin Flip
- Typhoon
- UFO
- Waltzer
- Wave Swinger
- Whip
- Wipeout / Trabant (also called Satellite and the Mexican Hat)
- Yo-Yo
- Zipper
See also
- Amusement park
- Amusement park accidents
- List of amusement parks
- Architectural structure
- Closed rides and attractions
- Kiddie rides
References
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- CarnivalMidways.Com is a directory of traveling carnivals in the U.S and Canada.
- Amusement Ride Extravaganza features history, photos and patent images of various rides.
- Rides Database : Rides Database, the world's biggest funfair rides database.
- UK National Fairground Archive ride histories.
- fairground-rides.co.uk database of UK fairground rides.
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