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List of amusement rides

Index List of amusement rides

Amusement rides, sometimes called carnival rides, are mechanical devices or structures that move people to create enjoyment. [1]

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Ali Baba (ride)

The Ali Baba (or magic carpet) is a type of amusement ride consisting of a stationary horizontal gondola with a 360 degree swinging pendulum.

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Alpine slide

An alpine slide (sometimes denoted with its German name Sommerrodelbahn) is a long chute on the side of a hill, usually built by ski resorts to supplement summer income.

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Amusement park

An amusement park is a park that features various attractions, such as rides and games, as well as other events for entertainment purposes.

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Balloon Race (ride)

The Zamperla Balloon Race is a tilting, circular motion amusement park ride manufactured by Antonio Zamperla S.P.A. The ride makes its way up a structure, and at a certain height, it starts tilting.

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Bayern Kurve

The Bayern Kurve is an amusement ride made in both a portable and park model that debuted in 1965 and was invented by German engineer Anton Schwarzkopf.

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Booster (Fabbri ride)

Booster is an amusement ride made by Fabbri.

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Booster (HUSS ride)

The Booster is an amusement park ride made originally by HUSS Maschinenfabrik starting in 1998.

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Breakdance (ride)

Breakdance is an amusement ride designed by HUSS Park Attractions in 1985.

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Bumper boats

Bumper boats are an amusement park ride that uses inner tube shaped watercraft that can be steered by the rider.

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Bumper cars

Bumper cars or dodgems is the generic name for a type of flat ride consisting of several small electrically powered cars which draw power from the floor and/or ceiling, and which are turned on and off remotely by an operator.

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Carousel

A carousel (American English: from French carrousel and Italian carosello), roundabout (British English), or merry-go-round, is a type of amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders.

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Caterpillar (ride)

The Caterpillar ride is a vintage flat ride engineered by the inventor Hyla F. Maynes of North Tonawanda, New York who dubbed it the Caterpillar when it debuted in Coney Island, NY in 1925 generates a decent helping of centrifugal force, causing the riders on the inside of the seats to crush the riders on the outside of the seats.

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Cliffhanger (ride)

The Cliff Hanger is an amusement park ride that is meant to simulate hang gliding.

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Condor (ride)

The Condor is the trade name of an amusement ride sold by HUSS of Bremen, Germany.

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Dark ride

A dark ride or ghost train is an indoor amusement ride on which passengers aboard guided vehicles travel through specially lit scenes that typically contain animation, sound, music and special effects.

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Devil's wheel

A Devil's wheel, Teufelsrad, Human Roulette Wheel or Joy Wheel is an amusement ride at public festivals and fairs.

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Disk'O

The Disk'O (also known as Skater or Surf's Up) is a type of flat ride manufactured by Zamperla of Italy.

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Double shot (ride)

Double Shot is a type of drop tower amusement ride that uses compressed air to rapidly propel riders up the tower then gently lower them with a series of air-cushioned bounces back to the loading platform.

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Drop tower

A drop tower or big drop is a type of amusement ride incorporating a central structure or tower.

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Enterprise (ride)

The Enterprise is an amusement ride, manufactured primarily by HUSS Park Attractions and Anton Schwarzkopf beginning in 1972.

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Evolution (ride)

Evolution is a large thrill ride manufactured by FarFabbri in Italy.

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Ferris wheel

A Ferris wheel (sometimes called a big wheel, observation wheel, or, in the case of the very tallest examples, giant wheel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, capsules, gondolas, or pods) attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, they are kept upright, usually by gravity.

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Fire Ball

The Fire Ball is an amusement ride manufactured by Larson International.

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Flying Scooters

Flying Scooters, also known simply as Flyers, is an amusement ride consisting of a center post with ride vehicles suspended from arms attached to the center post.

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Freefall (ride)

The Freefall is an amusement ride developed by Giovanola and marketed throughout the world by Swiss company, Intamin.

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Frisbee (ride)

The frisbee is a type of pendulum amusement ride featuring a circular gondola that rotates as it swings back and forth.

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Fun Slide

The fun slide, also known as the astroglide slide, or cascade slide, is an amusement ride.

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Funtime (manufacturer)

Funtime is an amusement ride manufacturer based in Bundall, Australia.

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Gravitron

The Gravitron (also known as the Starship, Starship 2000, Starship 3000, Starship 4000, Starship Area 51, Starship Gravitron, Starship Exodus, Alien Abduction, Alien Invasion, Twister, Devil's Hole, Area 51, and Enterprise) is an amusement ride, most commonly found as a portable ride at fairs and carnivals.

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Gyro tower

A gyro tower, or panoramic tower, is a revolving observation tower with a vertical moving platform.

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Hayride

A hayride, also known as a hayrack ride, is a traditional American and Canadian activity consisting of a recreational ride in a wagon or cart pulled by a tractor, horses or a truck, which has been loaded with hay or straw for comfortable seating.

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Helter skelter (ride)

A helter skelter is an amusement ride with a slide built in a spiral around a high tower.

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Hurricane (ride)

The Hurricane is an amusement ride first manufactured by the Allan Herschell Company.

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Jump and Smile

The Jump & Smile is a type of fairground ride in which the chair cars are arranged on a number of radial arms around a central axis.

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Kamikaze (ride)

A Kamikaze (also known as a Double-Arm Ranger, The Apollo, or the Skymaster, scissors and Sky Flyer) is a pendulum amusement ride, usually found as a traveling ride, with some examples found at amusement parks.

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Kiddie ride

A kiddie ride - or kids' ride - is a coin-operated amusement ride for young children.

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LaMarcus Adna Thompson

LaMarcus Adna Thompson (March 8, 1848 – May 8, 1919) was an American inventor and businessman most famous for developing a variety of gravity rides.

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List of amusement rides

Amusement rides, sometimes called carnival rides, are mechanical devices or structures that move people to create enjoyment.

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List of water ride types and examples

Water rides are amusement rides that are set over water.

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Log flume (ride)

Log flumes (colloquially known as log rides) are amusement rides consisting of a water flume and artificial hollow logs or boats.

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Loop-O-Plane

The Loop-O-Plane is an amusement park ride that originated in America.

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Looping Starship

The Looping Starship is an amusement ride manufactured by Intamin of Switzerland.

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Madhouse (ride)

A Madhouse is a flat ride manufactured by Vekoma.

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Matterhorn (ride)

The Matterhorn or Flying Bobs, sometimes known by alternate names such as Musik Express or Terminator in the UK, is an amusement ride very similar to the Superbob, which consists of a number of cars attached to axles that swing in and out.

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Mechanical bull

A mechanical bull, also known as a rodeo bull is a machine that replicates the sensation of riding a bucking animal, such as a rodeo bull or horse popularized by Sherwood Cryer.

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Mondial (amusement ride manufacturer)

Mondial is a Dutch company specialising in the manufacture of amusement rides.

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Monster (ride)

The Monster is an amusement ride manufactured by Eyerly Aircraft Company.

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Motion simulator

A motion simulator or motion platform is a mechanism that creates the feelings of being in a real motion environment.

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Music Express

A Music Express is an amusement ride based on the original Caterpillar rides of Germany.

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Octopus (ride)

The Octopus is a type of amusement ride in the shape of an octopus.

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Old Mill (ride)

An old mill is a type of amusement park ride with unaccompanied boats floated on guideways through dark tunnels.

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Omnimover

The Omnimover is an amusement ride system used for Disney theme park attractions.

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Orbiter (ride)

The Orbiter is a fairground ride invented by Richard Woolls in 1976.

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Paratrooper (ride)

The Paratrooper, also known as the "Parachute Ride" or "Umbrella Ride", is a type of fairground ride based on the seats suspended below a wheel which rotates at an oblique angle.

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Pendulum ride

Pendulum rides are amusement rides based on the motion of a fixed pendulum.

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Pirate ship (ride)

A pirate ship is a type of amusement ride based on pirate ships, consisting of an open, seated gondola (usually in the style of a pirate ship) which swings back and forth, subjecting the rider to various levels of angular momentum.

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Power Surge (ride)

Power Surge is a high-impact thrill ride designed by Italian ride manufacturer Zamperla.

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Rainbow (ride)

Rainbow is the name of the amusement park ride created by HUSS Maschinenfabrik of Bremen, Germany which is now HUSS Park Attractions of Budapest, Hungary.

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Ranger (ride)

A Ranger is an inverting pendulum ride first manufactured by HUSS Machinenfabrik in 1981.

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Red Baron (ride)

Red Baron is an amusement ride that is primarily intended for small children.

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Reverse bungee

The reverse bungee (also known as catapult bungee or ejection seat) is a modern type of fairground ride that was invented by Troy Griffin in c. 1978.

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River rapids ride

A river rapids ride (or river rafting ride) is an amusement ride that simulates whitewater rafting.

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Rock-O-Plane

The Rock-O-Plane is an amusement park ride designed by Lee Eyerly in 1948 and manufactured by the Eyerly Aircraft Company of Salem, Oregon.

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Rockin' Tug

Rockin' Tug is a flat ride manufactured by Zamperla.

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Roll-O-Plane

The Roll-O-Plane also known as the Bullet is an amusement park ride that originated in America.

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Roller coaster

A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride that employs a form of elevated railroad track designed with tight turns, steep slopes, and sometimes inversions.

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Rotor (ride)

The Rotor is an amusement park ride, designed by German engineer Ernst Hoffmeister in the late 1940s.

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Round Up (ride)

Round Up is an amusement ride consisting of a circular horizontal platform with a vertical cage-like wall around the edge.

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Scrambler (ride)

The Scrambler, Twist (in the UK), Twister, Cha Cha (in Australia), Sizzler, or Merry Mixer, is an amusement ride in which suspended riders spinning in cars experience centrifugal force, while spinning along two separate axes.

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Screamin' Swing

Screamin' Swing is a pneumatically powered pendulum ride designed by S&S Worldwide.

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Shoot the Chute

Shoot the Chute is an amusement ride consisting of a flat-bottomed boat that slides down a ramp or inside a flume into a lagoon.

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Simulator ride

Simulator rides are a type of amusement park or fairground ride, where the audience is shown a movie while their seats move to correspond to the action on screen.

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Sky Swat

The Sky Swat was a thrill ride which was built by S&S Power of Logan, Utah.

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Skycoaster

Skycoaster is an amusement park ride, produced and managed by Skycoaster, Inc., owned division of Ride Entertainment Group.

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Skydiver (ride)

The Skydiver is an amusement ride produced from 1965 to 1987 by Chance Rides, an American manufacturer based in Wichita, Kansas.

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Space shot (ride)

Space Shot is a type of drop tower type attraction that uses compressed air to rapidly propel riders up the tower then gently lower them with a series of air-cushioned bounces back to the loading platform.

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Speed (ride)

Speed is an amusement ride design produced by the Dutch company KMG.

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Spin Out (ride)

The Spin Out is a claw-shaped amusement ride.

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Super shot (ride)

Super Shot (also known as Freefall or Cannonball) is a type of drop tower amusement ride made.

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Super Star (ride)

Super Star is a fairground ride once manufactured by Northern Amusements (NA Superides).

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Swing Around

The HUSS Swing Around is an amusement park ride formerly manufactured by HUSS.

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Swing boat

A swing boat, colloquially known as a "shuggy boat" in the north east of England, is a fairground ride in which pairs of riders pull ropes to swing back and forth.

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Swing ride

The swing ride or chair swing ride (sometimes called a swing carousel, wave swinger, yo-yo, Chair-O-Planes or swinger) is an amusement ride that is a variation on the carousel in which the chairs are suspended from the rotating top of the carousel.

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Tagada

A tagada is an amusement ride made by various manufacturers.

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Teacups

Teacups is an amusement ride characterised by cup-style spinning vehicles atop a turntable-like floor.

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The Whip (ride)

The Whip was a ride originally designed and built by W.F. Mangels Company of Coney Island, New York, United States.

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Tilt-A-Whirl

Tilt-A-Whirl is a flat ride similar to the Waltzer in Europe, designed for commercial use at amusement parks, fairs, and carnivals, in which it is commonly found.

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Top Scan

Top Scan is an amusement ride made by Mondial.

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Top Spin (ride)

The Top Spin is a thrill ride developed by HUSS Park Attractions, and is the generic name for a series of rides from other manufacturers that follow the same principle.

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Topple Tower

A Topple Tower is an amusement ride designed in 2001 by van Orsouw Amusement Rides Design Service of Berghem, Netherlands.

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Tornado (Wisdom ride)

The Tornado is an amusement ride manufactured by Wisdom Industries Ltd.

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Tow boat ride

A tow boat ride is a water ride constructed on a body of water.

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Troika (ride)

The Troika is an amusement park ride designed and manufactured by HUSS Park Attractions in the mid-1970s.

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Tumble Bug

A Tumble Bug is an amusement park ride with a circular track.

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Turbo drop

Turbo drop is a type of drop tower amusement ride.

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UFO (ride)

The UFO is an amusement park ride designed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in 1978, based on the company's Enterprise and Skylab amusement rides.

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Waltzer

A Waltzer is a flat fairground ride that often forms the centrepiece of traditional Scottish and English fairs.

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Wipeout (ride)

The Wipeout is a newer form of the Trabant.

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Wood

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.

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Zipper (ride)

The Zipper is an amusement ride invented by Joseph Brown under Chance Rides in 1968.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amusement_rides

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