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An amusement ride at the 2007 Seville Fair in Seville, Spain. 4 second exposure night photography. Flying Scooter ride at Kings Island, Ohio An assortment of rides at the Royal Melbourne Show An Enterprise Amusement ride in Oak's Park in Portland, Oregon Breakdance Ride, Royal Melbourne Show 2005 Dodgem Cars, Royal Melbourne Shannon 2005 Amusement Ride Prater 2008

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.

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
  • Gyro 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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• UK National Fairground Archive ride histories.
• fairground-rides.co.uk database of UK fairground rides.

External links

• A list of amusement ride patents, with links to the U.S. Patent office