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An amusement ride at the 2007 Seville Fair in Seville, Spain.
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Flying Scooter ride at Kings Island, Ohio
An assortment of rides at the Royal Melbourne Show
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Amusement ride in Oak's Park in Portland, Oregon
Breakdance Ride, Royal Melbourne Show 2005
Dodgem Cars, Royal Melbourne Show 2005
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
- Balloon Race / Samba Balloon
- Condor
- Dark rides
- Disk-O
- Drop towers
- Enterprise
- Ferris wheels or Big wheels
- Frisbees
- House of mirrors
- Insanity
- 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
- Slingshot
- Swing Around / Apollo 2000
- Swing Rides
- Teacups
- Topple Tower
- Top Scan
- 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
- 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
- Music Express / Himalaya / Rock N Roll / Silver Streak
- 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
- Sky Wheel / Skywheel
- Speed
- Spin Out (also known as Move-It)
- Super star
- Tagada (riders sit in a large bowl, in which it spins round and jolts about)
- 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
- UFO
- Waltzer
- Wave Swinger
- Whip
- Wipeout / Trabant (also called Satellite and the Mexican Hat)
- Yo-Yo
- Zipper
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Amusement ride manufactures
Most new amusement rides are innovations of one of the major amusement ride manufacturers, 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 manufacturers in the history of amusement rides are:
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See also
- Amusement parks
- Amusement park accidents
- List of Amusement Parks
- Architectural structure
- Closed rides and attractions
References
- 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.
