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 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. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 534 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 683 pixel, file size: 110 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Richard Brian- Carnival Night Photograph. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 534 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 683 pixel, file size: 110 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Richard Brian- Carnival Night Photograph. ... Rainbow Bridge viewed from Odaiba The lack of ambient light allowed the headlights of the automobile to expose the majority of this photograph. ... Image File history File links Flyingscooter. ... Image File history File links Flyingscooter. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 786 KB) Rides - 2005 Melbourne Show File links The following pages link to this file: Amusement ride ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 786 KB) Rides - 2005 Melbourne Show File links The following pages link to this file: Amusement ride ... The Secondary College Carcase Comp The Royal Melbourne Show is an agricultural show held at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds every September. ... Download high resolution version (1280x1024, 393 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1280x1024, 393 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... An Enterprise The enterprise is an amusement ride manufactured by HUSS Maschinenfabrik. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 295 KB) Summary Amusement park ride, photographed on 22 August 2005 at Oaks Park in Portland, Oregon. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 295 KB) Summary Amusement park ride, photographed on 22 August 2005 at Oaks Park in Portland, Oregon. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 671 KB) Break Dance ride - 2005 Melbourne Show File links The following pages link to this file: Amusement ride Breakdance (ride) ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 671 KB) Break Dance ride - 2005 Melbourne Show File links The following pages link to this file: Amusement ride Breakdance (ride) ... The Secondary College Carcase Comp The Royal Melbourne Show is an agricultural show held at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds every September. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 642 KB) Dodgem Cars - 2005 Melbourne Show File links The following pages link to this file: Amusement ride ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 642 KB) Dodgem Cars - 2005 Melbourne Show File links The following pages link to this file: Amusement ride ... The Secondary College Carcase Comp The Royal Melbourne Show is an agricultural show held at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds every September. ... In the US, traveling carnivals are made up of amusement rides, food, games, and other things that comes to town. ... A travelling funfair has many attractions, including adult or thrill rides, childrens rides, and sideshows consisting of games of skill, strength, or luck. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Types

Amusement Park rides

Larger rides, normally only found in amusement/theme parks This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

• 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
  • Gyro 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
• Top Spin
• Train rides
• Troika / Scorpion
• Tumble Bug
• Water Rides
• wild fire

The Zamperla Balloon Race is a circular motion ride that tilts. ... A Condor in Operation at Six Flags Great America. ... A dark ride or darkride is an indoor amusement ride consisting of a vehicle traveling past animated scenes. ... Dollywoods Disk-O Disk-O is a Zamperla flat ride. ... A drop tower at Movie Park Germany A drop tower is an amusement ride which consists of a carriage attached to a tower. ... An Enterprise The enterprise is an amusement ride manufactured by HUSS Maschinenfabrik. ... A Ferris wheel on the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey, USA. A Ferris wheel (or, more commonly in the UK, big wheel) is a nonbuilding structure consisting of an upright wheel with passenger gondolas suspended from the rim. ... The original Huss Frisbee, owned by German showman Rudolf Robrahn Sledgehammer, a Giant Frisbee at Bobbejaanland The Frisbee is an pendulum-motion amusement ride designed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik. ... A house of mirrors is a traditional attraction in carnivals. ... Space Shuttle at Six Flags Great Adventure, a Looping Starship ride The Looping Starship (also can be called Space Shuttle) is a flat ride by Intamin AG of Switzerland. ... A motion platform is a type of amusement ride with a seating platform remaining parallel to the ground while being moved in a circular motion along a vertical plane. ... An amusement park observation tower at night. ... A Gyro Tower is a roundabout, with which a closed cab raises itself slowly at a high stahlmast, turns above some rounds and itself then slowly to the soil back-screwed. ... A pirate ship is a type of amusement ride, consisting of an open, seated gondola (usually in the style of a pirate ship or galleon) which swings back and forth, subjecting the rider to various levels of centrifugal and gravitational force. ... A typical roller coaster The roller coaster is a popular amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. ... Look up Switchback in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Zooline Railroad St. ... The Sky Swat is a thrill ride which is built by S&S Power of Logan, Utah. ... Thunder N Lightning, a Screamin Swing operating at Lake Compounce Screamin Swing is a pneunamically powered pendulum ride designed by S&S Power. ... The Huss Swing Around is a ride found in some Amusement Parks in the world. ... The swings are types of amusement rides that have seats attached below a metal structure. ... For the drinking vessel, see teacup. ... A Topple Tower is a new roundabout, a which outer tiltable tower exists, at which the car with the passengers raises themselves. ... It has been suggested that Thunderhawk (Worlds of Fun) be merged into this article or section. ... A kiddie train ride For the film, see Train Ride. ... The Troika is an amusement park ride, designed and manufactured by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in the early 1980s. ... A Tumble Bug is an amusement park ride. ... Water rides are amusement rides that are set over water. ...

Carnival or Funfair/Fair/Fairground rides

Traditional and transportable rides found at Carnivals/Fairs, many of which may also be found in amusement parks In the US, traveling carnivals are made up of amusement rides, food, games, and other things that comes to town. ... A travelling funfair has many attractions, including adult or thrill rides, childrens rides, and sideshows consisting of games of skill, strength, or luck. ...

• 1001 Nacht / Ali Baba / Falling Star / Joker / Rainbow
• 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
• Flat Rides
• Flying coaster (also called Ski Jump)
• 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
• Move-it
• 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
• Ranger
• Rock-O-Plane
• Rotor
• Round Up / Zero Gravity
• Ring of Fire / Larson Fireball
• Scrambler / Sizzler/ Twist (also called Twister)
• Simulator
• Sky Wheel / Skywheel
• Slingshot
• Speed
• Spin Out
• 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

Webers 1001 Nachts, A.R.M.s Ali Baba, and Husss Rainbow are all pendulum amusement rides. ... A Breakdance operating at the 2005 Royal Melbourne Show The Breakdance is an amusement park ride, designed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in 1985. ... Bumper car at a small town fair Bumper car is the generic name for a type of flat ride consisting of several small electric cars that draw their power from an overhead grid, which is turned off by the operator at the end of a session. ... Carousel in Bobbejaanland, Belgium] (Bobbejaan Schoepen Archive) A carousel (or carrousel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating platform with seats for passengers. ... A Chair-O-Planes ride with a tilting top Stationary Chair-O-Planes showing chairs on hanging chains. ... Cliffhanger, Kite Flyer, and the Fly Away are rides that simulate hang gliding. ... Sartoris Crazy Wave, Wisdomss Gee Whiz, and Wisdoms Moby Dick are all amusement rides that each have 2 small arms attached to a gondola below them. ... This is Fabbris Evolution in action. ... A nighttime view of a Freak Out at full swing. ... Lost City - a large travelling funhouse that unpacks from two articulated trailers. ... Fredericksons Fun Slide is an carnival ride that is popular with kids. ... A ghost train is a dark ride found at funfairs, primarily designed for children. ... The Gravitron is an amusement ride which involves fast rotations around an axis creating centrifugal force. ... The Saturn 6 or formally known as the Hurricane created in 1972, is a ride in which 6 35 foot arms with one car each (which each can carry 4 passengers) is attatched to a 40 foot central shaft. ... In British English, a Helter Skelter is an amusement park ride with a slide built in a spiral around a high tower. ... Jumpin Frog a Jump & Smile fairground ride Jump & Smile car detail. ... ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ... Video of a Kamikaze working in Expoflora at Holambra, São Paulo. ... A young man on a kiddie ride of the pony type, which is situated alongside the miniature carousel type and another pony type Kiddie rides are small, coin-operated rides that appear in amusement parks and outside supermarkets and large stores such as K-mart and Sav-On. ... Swailes Baileys Terminator Matterhorn at the Cambridge Midsomer fair. ... A Music Express in operation at Six Flags Great Adventure A Music Express (also commonly referred to as a Musik Express) is an amusement parkand fair/carnival ride designed by Moser Rides of Germany. ... At night time, an Orbiter in full motion, is a bewildering blur of lights. ... The octopus is an amusement ride in the shape of an octopus. ... John Flacks Xenon lifting Paratrooper being dismantled at the end of the fair. ... Zamperlas Power Surge is a structure that consists of a main arm that raises up and down. ... A reverse bungee launch with the passenger car nearing the top of the launch. ... A Ranger is a HUSS manufactured inverting pendulum ride, first manufactured in 1981. ... Rock-O-Plane at Oaks Park, Portland, Oregon The Rock-O-Plane is an amusement park ride. ... Interior of the Rotor at Luna Park Sydney. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: no real content If you disagree with its speedy deletion, please explain why on its talk page or at Wikipedia:Speedy deletions. ... Larson Internationals older Ring of Fire, and there newer version called Fireball are both amusement rides that take the shape of a huge circle that is upright. ... A Scrambler is a spinning amusement ride found at amusement parks and fairs. ... Simulator seating St. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Extreme Speed Machine in operation Speed is an amusement ride design produced by the Dutch company KMG. // The ride is primarily a 37 metre arm, connected midway to the main support of the ride. ... The Spin Out is a claw type of ride. ... Edward Danters superstar waiting for riders. ... Tilt-A-Whirl is one of the best-known flat rides, designed to induce a high-speed dizziness on its riders, and commonly found at amusement parks, fairs and carnivals. ... A modern bobsleigh toboggan A toboggan is a simple sled used on snow, to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill or other slope, for recreation. ... A kiddie train ride For the film, see Train Ride. ... The Flying Saucer, a UFO operating at Luna Park Sydney The UFO is an amusement park ride designed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in the 1970s, based on the companys Enterprise rides. ... A waltzer in motion, an operator spins the cars A waltzer is a fairground ride common in England. ... Image:Ws14. ... The Wipeout is a newer form of the Trabant. ... The Yo-Yo is a common amusement ride featured in carnivals, state fairs, and similar events. ... A Zipper at a County Fair. ...

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:

Chance-Morgan, a roller coaster manufacturer, was formed in 2001 with the merger of Chance Industries and D. H. Morgan Manufacturing, both roller coaster manufacturers. ... Lee U. Eyerly (1892-1963) was an Oregon civil aviation pioneer and amusement ride manufacturer. ... Sunbury, Pennsylvania-based Great Coasters International (GCI) has created several award-winning rides. ... Expedition GeForce Intamin AG is a designing and manufacturing company in Wollerau, Switzerland. ... S&S Power is company known for its pneumatically powered rides. ... Anton Schwarzkopf (1924-2001) was a prolific German roller coaster engineer and founder of the Schwarzkopf Industries company, which built numerous amusement park rides and roller coasters. ... Sonacase Ltd is a ride manufacturer mainly known for the building of Twist rides. ... Tivoli Enterprises is known for building thrilling amusement rides. ... Vekoma-built Limit (Heide Park) Vekoma is a roller coaster and thrill ride designer with its facilities based in the Netherlands. ... Zamperla Rides is a designing and manufacturing company in Vicenza, Italy. ... Zierer is a German company located close to Deggendorf. ...

See also

• Amusement parks
• Amusement park accidents
• List of Amusement Parks
• Architectural structure
• Closed rides and attractions

Ferris wheel Amusement park is the more generic term for a collection of amusement rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a fairly large group of people. ... // Amusement park accidents often result in serious injury or death to somebody visiting or working at an amusement park. ... This page contains a list of amusement parks by region, and links to amusement parks listed alphabetically, beginning with the name of the park. ... An architectural structure is a free-standing or guy anchored manmade outdoor construction for permanent use. ... The following are amusement park rides and attractions that have been closed. ...

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.

External links

• A list of amusement ride patents, with links to the U.S. Patent office
• Classification of Amusement parks
• Flying Turns - Resurrecting a Legend. 2007 documentary by Storytellers Media Group about Flying Turns construction at Knoebels Amusement Resort