Amusement ride

Types

Amusement Park rides

• Balloon Race / Samba Balloon
  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....
  
• Condor
  Condor (ride)
  
  The Condor is the trade name of an amusement ride sold by HUSS Maschinenfabrik of Bremen, Germany. It was debuted at the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair, under the name "Cyclo Tower"....
  
• Dark ride
  Dark ride
  
  A dark ride or darkride is an indoor amusement ride where riders in guided vehicles travel through specially-lit scenes that typically contain animation, sounds, music, and other special effects....
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• Disk-O
  Disk-O
  
  Disk-O/ Skater is a Zamperla flat ride. Riders sit on a circular platform with outward-facing seats [or in a long, normal gondola looking inwards ], and rock back and forth while spinning....
  
• Drop tower
  Drop tower (amusement ride)
  
  A drop tower is a type of amusement ride, based around a central structure or tower. With most drop towers, the gondola is lifted to the top of a large vertical structure, before being released and falling towards the ground....
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• Enterprise
  Enterprise (ride)
  
  The Enterprise is an amusement ride, manufactured primarily by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in 1972. The ride was an adaption and improvement of a design produced earlier that year by Anton Schwarzkopf, with an increased passenger capacity....
  
• Ferris wheel
  Ferris wheel
  
  A Ferris wheel is a nonbuilding structure, consisting of an upright wheel with passenger gondolas attached to the rim.The original Ferris wheel was designed by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., as a landmark for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago....
  s or Big wheels
• Frisbee
  Frisbee (ride)
  
  The Frisbee is an pendulum ride-motion amusement ride designed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik. The term is often used to describe similar rides built by other companies....
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• House of mirrors
  House of mirrors
  
  A house of mirrors or hall of mirrors is a traditional attraction at funfairs and amusement parks. The basic concept behind a house of mirrors is to be a maze-like puzzle....
  
• Insanity
  Freak Out (ride)
  
  A Freak Out is a pendulum ride-based fairground ride. It is a smaller version of the Afterburner ride; both of which are manufactured by KMG of the Netherlands....
  
• Launched FreeFall
  Drop tower
  
  In physics and materials science, a drop tower or drop tube is a structure used to produce a controlled period of weightlessness for an object under study....
  
• Looping Starship / Space Shuttle
  Looping Starship
  
  The Looping Starship is a flat ride by Intamin AG of Switzerland. The concept of the ride is basically a Pirate ship that can spin a complete 360-degree revolution....
  
• Megadrop
• Motion platforms
• Observation towers
• Gyro Tower
  Gyro Tower
  
  A Gyro Tower or Panoramic Tower is an evolution of the Observation tower with a vertical moving platform. A Gyro Tower's observation deck is not simply raised to provide its passengers a spectacular view, it is also rotated around the supporting mast, either once in the raised position or while traveling up and down the center mast....
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• Pirate Ship / Pharaoh's Fury / Sea Ray
  Pirate ship (ride)
  
  A pirate ship is a type of amusement ride, consisting of an open, seated gondola which swings back and forth, subjecting the rider to various levels of angular momentum....
  
• Roller coaster
  Roller coaster
  
  For Rollercoaster, the wooden rollercoaster at Pleasure Beach Blackpool, see Rollercoaster The roller coaster is a popular amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks....
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• switchback
• Horror train
• Sightseeing trains
• Sky Swat
  Sky Swat
  
  The Sky Swat is a thrill ride which is built by S&S Power of Logan, Utah. It starts by hoisting two arms to the top of a tower where it then begins to flip its riders upside down....
  
• Screamin' Swing
  Screamin' Swing
  
  Screamin' Swing is a pneumatically powered pendulum ride designed by S&S Power. The ride was first installed and operated in 2004 at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, California....
  
• Reverse bungee
  Reverse bungee
  
  The Reverse Bungee is a modern type of fairground ride that was invented by Troy Griffin in 1995. His dream was to create a safer, yet more extreme bungee jumping experience....
   (slingshot)
• Swing Around / Apollo 2000
  Swing Around/Apollo 2000
  
  The Huss Swing Around is an amusement park ride manufacturered by Huss. It rotates in a circle, and the arms swing out, and then come in. They keep on doing this during the ride until the very end, where they all swing out, using hydraulic pressure....
  
• Swing Rides
  Swings (ride)
  
  Swings are types of Amusement rides that have seats attached below a metal structure. Each seat is suspended by metal chains. The swing ride will spin around the center axis of the ride, and travel at a moderate speed....
  
• Teacups
  Teacups
  
  Teacups is an amusement ride characterized by cup-style spinning vehicles atop a turntable-like floor....
  
• Topple Tower
  Topple Tower
  
  A Topple Tower is an amusement ride produced by HUSS Maschinenfabrik. The ride was designed during the early 1990s and first went into operation in 2005....
  
• Top Spin
  Top Spin (ride)
  
  The Top Spin is a thrill ride developed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik, and is the generic name for a series of rides from other manufacturers that follow the same principle....
  
• Troika / Scorpion
  Troika (ride)
  
  The Troika is an amusement park ride, designed and manufactured by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in the mid-1970s. The ride is available in both transportable and permanent forms, although due to the total weight and size of the ride , transportable Troikas are unpopular and uncommon....
  
• Tumble Bug
  Tumble Bug
  
  A Tumble Bug is an amusement park ride with a circular track.Only two full-sized Tumble Bugs remain operating today in the United States—one in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at Kennywood and one in Conneaut Lake, also in Pennsylvania....
  

Carnival or Funfair/Fair/Fairground rides

• 1001 Nacht / Ali Baba / Falling Star / Joker / Rainbow
  1001 Nachts / Ali Baba / Rainbow
  
  The 1001 Nachts, Ali Baba, and Rainbow are amusement park rides that are stationary horizontal gondola, swinging pendulums....
   (also called Flying Carpet)
• Breakdance
  Breakdance (ride)
  
  The Breakdance is an amusement park ride, designed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in 1985. Upon release, the ride design proved to be an instant hit, with HUSS now producing four varying designs, all of which can be acquired in transportable, semi-permanent, or permanent forms....
  
• Bumper cars or Dodgems
• Carousel
  Carousel
  
  A carousel , or merry-go-round, is an amusement ride consisting of a rotation platform with seats for passengers. The "seats" are traditionally in the form of wooden horses or animals, which are often moved mechanically up and down to simulate Horse gait#Gallop, to the accompaniment of Music loop circus music....
  s or Merry-go-round
• Chair-O-Planes
  Chair-O-Planes
  
  The Chair-O-Planes, sometimes called a swing carousel or wave swinger, is a fairground ride that is a variation on the carousel in which the chairs are suspended on chains from the rotation top of the carousel....
   - swing ride
• Chaos
• Crazy shake
• Cliffhanger / Kite Flyer / Fly Away
  Cliffhanger (ride)
  
  The Cliff Hanger is a ride that is very popular, and is seen at most amusement parks and wealthy traveling shows. The ride is for the intent of simulating hang gliding....
  
• Crazy Wave / Gee Whiz / Moby Dick
  Crazy Wave / Gee Whiz / Moby Dick
  
  Sartori's Crazy Wave, Wisdoms's Gee Whiz, and Wisdom's Moby Dick are all Amusement ride that each have 2 small arms attached to a gondola below them....
  
• Cobra (Venture Rides)
  Cobra (Venture Rides)
  
  The Venture Rides Cobra is a unique amusement ride that is uncommon in the United States. The rides platform is a steel arm that is permanently at a 25 degree angle....
  
• Dive bomber
• Enterprise (also called Millennium)
• Evolution
  Evolution (ride)
  
  Evolution is a large thrill ride manufactured by FarFabbri in Italy. It consists of 4 inclined pillars which support a revolving arm. On one end of the arm are some counterweights and on the other is a rotating hub which holds 10 cars....
  
• Flying Coaster (also called Ski Jump or Kangaroo)
• Freak Out
  Freak Out (ride)
  
  A Freak Out is a pendulum ride-based fairground ride. It is a smaller version of the Afterburner ride; both of which are manufactured by KMG of the Netherlands....
  
• Funhouse
  Funhouse
  
  A funhouse or fun house is an amusement facility found on amusement park and carnival midways in which patrons can have a number of unusual and hopefully amusing experiences, both physical or psychological....
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• Fun Slide
  Fun Slide
  
  Frederiksen's Fun Slide is an Amusement ride that is popular with kids. People walk up the stairs to get to the top of this slide along with a mat, than sit down, and place the mat on the slide....
  
• Ghost train
  Ghost train (ride)
  
  A ghost train is a dark ride found at funfairs, primarily designed for children. Typically it consists of a train that moves quite slowly through a darkened tunnel decorated with horror related items ....
  
• Gravitron / Starship 2000
  Gravitron
  
  This article is about the amusement ride. For the hypothetical elementary particle, see graviton.The Gravitron is an amusement ride, most commonly found as a temporary ride....
  
• Saturn 6 / Hurricane / Downdraft
• Helter Skelter or Slide
• Jump and smile
  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. As the central axis rotates, the arms are lifted into the air at pseudo-random intervals giving an erratic jumping motion....
  
• Insanity
• Kamikaze
  Kamikaze (ride)
  
  A Kamikaze is a pendulum ride amusement ride, usually found as a traveling ride, with some examples found at amusement parks. The ride is manufactured by Far Fabbri & Sartori, and first made its debut in 1984....
  
• Kiddie ride
• KMG Afterburner (Fireball)
• Matterhorn / Flying Bobs
  Matterhorn (ride)
  
  For the Disneyland attraction, see Matterhorn Bobsleds.The Matterhorn or Flying Bobs, sometimes also known by alternate names such as Musik Express or Terminator in the UK is an Amusement Ride very similar to the Music Express, which consist of a number of cars attached to axels and swing out and in....
  
• Miami
• Music Express / Himalaya / Rock N Roll / Silver Streak
  Music Express
  
  A Music Express is an amusement park and carnival ride based on the original Caterpillar rides of Germany. Several near-identical ride designs are also produced by other companies; Musik Express by Italian company Bertazzon and US Majestic Rides, Himalaya by American company Wisdom Rides,...
  
• Orbiter
  Orbiter (ride)
  
  The Orbiter is a fairground ride invented by Richard Woolls in 1976.It has a number of articulated arms radiating from a central rotating vertial axis....
  
• Octopus / Monster / Polyp / Spider
  Octopus (ride)
  
  The Octopus is an amusement ride in the shape of an octopus. Eight or five arms attached to a central Axis of rotation spin and move up and down in random, whilst cars at the end of the arms spin on rotary bolts....
  
• Paratrooper or Umbrella Ride / Force 10
  Paratrooper (ride)
  
  A Paratrooper also known as an "Umbrella Ride" is a type of fairground ride based on cars suspended below a wheel which rotates at an oblique angle....
  
• Power Surge
  Power Surge (ride)
  
  Power Surge is a high-impact thrill ride designed by Italian ride manufacturer Zamperla. The Power Surge was first operated in 1999, and is produced in both trailer-mounted and park versions....
  
• Quasar (also called swing)
• Reverse bungee
  Reverse bungee
  
  The Reverse Bungee is a modern type of fairground ride that was invented by Troy Griffin in 1995. His dream was to create a safer, yet more extreme bungee jumping experience....
   (also called slingshot or ejection seat}
• Ranger
  Ranger (ride)
  
  A Ranger is a HUSS Rides manufactured inverting pendulum ride, first manufactured in 1981. Many of the design elements were later used in the HUSS Rainbow , and the term 'Ranger' has become synonymous with inverting pendulum rides....
  
• Rock-O-Plane
  Rock-O-Plane
  
  The Rock-O-Plane is an amusement ride. Its shape is similar to that of a Ferris wheel, but with seats that are enclosed and rock and roll as the ride turns....
  
• Rotor
  Rotor (ride)
  
  The Rotor is an amusement park ride, designed by German engineer Ernst Hoffmeister in the late 1940s. The ride was first demonstrated at Oktoberfest 1949, and was exhibited at fairs and events throughout Europe during the 1950s and 1960s....
  
• Round Up / Zero Gravity
  Round Up
  
  "Round Up" is a single released in 2002 by American rapper Lady May and features guest vocals by Rhythm and blues/Pop music singer Blu Cantrell....
  
• Ring of Fire / Larson Fireball
  Ring of Fire / Larson Fireball
  
  IntroductionLarson International has made three rides of similar design. The first being the SUPER LOOP, followed by RING OF FIRE, and the third being FIREBALL....
  
• Scrambler / Sizzler/ Twist (also called Twister)
• Simulator
  Motion simulator
  
  A motion simulator or motion platform is a mechanism that encapsulates riders and creates the effect/feelings of being in a moving object....
  
• Shoot the Chute (Water Flumes etc)
• Skydiver
  Skydiver (ride)
  
  The Skydiver is a carnival ride produced from 1965 to 1979 by Chance Morgan, an United States manufacturer of amusement rides based in Wichita, Kansas, Kansas....
  
• Sky Wheel / Skywheel
• Speed
  Speed (ride)
  
  Speed is an amusement ride design produced by the Dutch company KMG. It is commonly referred to as KMG Booster, due to its similarity with the Fabbri Booster ride....
  
• Spin Out
  Spin Out (Ride)
  
  The Spin Out is a claw type of ride. The claw has seats, and is attached to an arm. It spins 360 degrees while rotating upside-down. There is a turntable underneath the ride that turns in the opposite direction....
   (also known as Move-It)
• Super star
  Super star (ride)
  
  Superstar is an thrill ride manufactured by Super-rides International in the UK.The ride rotates causing the seat units to swing out. The ride simultaneously raises into its elevated position....
  
• Tagada (riders sit in a large bowl, in which it spins round and jolts about

Thrillers (big coasters etc)

• Tilt-A-Whirl
  Tilt-A-Whirl
  
  Tilt-A-Whirl is one of the best-known flat rides, designed for commercial use at amusement parks, fairs and carnivals in which it is commonly found....
  
• Tip-top (similar to a Paratrooper, but the ride sends passengers upside down)
• Toboggan
  Toboggan
  
  A toboggan is a simple sled that is a traditional form of transport used by the Innu and Cree of northern Canada. In modern times, it is used on snow to carry one or more people down a hill or other slope for recreation....
  
• Tornado
  Tornado (ride)
  
  The tornado is an amusement ride manufactured by Wisdom Industries Ltd. The center base spins at 10 RPM while each car can be spun by the riders....
  
• Train ride
  Train ride
  
  A train ride in an amusement park, or a municipal park setting, is an attraction consisting of a Rail transport modelling train, often running on a permanent or portable railroad track, but sometimes without any track whatsoever....
  s, "kiddie ride" type
• Twin Flip
• Typhoon
• UFO
  UFO (ride)
  
  The UFO is an amusement park ride designed by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in the 1970s, based on the company's Enterprise and Skylab amusement rides....
  
• Waltzer
  Waltzer
  
  A waltzer is a Amusement ride that consists of a number of cars which are free to spin individually while rotating around a central point like a carousel....
  
• Wave Swinger
  Wave swinger
  
  The Wave Swinger premiered in Germany in 1972 as a park model designed by Zierer and built by Franz Schwartzkopf. In 1974 the first portable Wellenflug debuted under the same partnership....
  
• Whip
• Wipeout / Trabant
  Wipeout/Trabant (Ride)
  
  The Wipeout is a newer form of the Trabant. The rides are very similar as they both were made by Chance-Morgan. They each spin horizontally, and then start fluctuating in a wavelike manner....
   (also called Satellite and the Mexican Hat)
• Yo-Yo
  Yo-Yo (ride)
  
  The Yo-Yo is a common amusement ride featured in carnivals, state fairs, and similar events. A variation of the Chair-O-Planes, it resembles a series of Swings arranged in a circle, which turn just fast enough to be slightly affected by centripetal force....
  
• Zipper

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:

• Aero Affiliates (USA)
• AMECO (USA)
• Arihant Industrial Corporation Ltd.INDIA
• ARMUKLTD Amusement Ride Manufacturers
• Bakker
• Bembom Rides (UK)
• Bennetts (UK)
• Bertazzon (Italy/USA)
• Cadoxton (UK)
• Chance Rides/Chance Morgan
  Chance-Morgan
  
  Chance Morgan, a roller coaster and amusement ride manufacturer, was formed in 2001 with the merger of Chance Industries and D. H. Morgan Manufacturing ....
   (USA)
• Church (UK)
• Dartron Industries (USA)
• Eli Bridge (USA)
• Lee Eyerly
  Lee Eyerly
  
  Lee U. Eyerly was an United States civil aviation pioneer and amusement ride manufacturer.He was born in Cuba, Illinois, and raised in Canton, Illinois....
   (USA)
• Far Fabbri (Italy) -
• Gosetto Rides (Italy)
• Gravity Works, Inc (USA)
• Great Coasters International
  Great Coasters International
  
  Great Coasters International, Inc. is a Sunbury, Pennsylvania-based roller coaster manufacturer which has created several award-winning rides....
   (USA)
• Edwin Hall (UK)
• Hayes Fabrication (UK)
• Hopkins Amusement Rides (USA)
• HUSS Park Rides (Germany)
• Hrubetz
• Intamin AG
  Intamin AG
  
  Intamin AG is a designing and manufacturing company in Wollerau, Switzerland. It is best known for creating thrill rides and roller coasters worldwide....
   (Liechtenstein)
• Ital International (USA)
• Jacksons (UK)
• Caspar Klaus (Germany)
• KMG (Netherlands) - Kermis Machinebouw Gaasendam
• L & T Systems Amusement Rides (USA)
• Lang Wheels (UK)
• Larson International (USA)
• Lusse Company (UK)
• Mack Rides (Germany)
• Maurer Söhne
  Maurer Söhne
  
  Maurer S?hne is a steel construction company and roller coaster manufacturer. Founded in Munich, Germany in 1876, the company has built many styles of steel buildings, ranging from bridges, industrial buildings, and even art structures....
   (Germany)
• Maxwells (UK)
• Mondial Rides (Netherlands)
• Moser Rides (Italy)
• Mundial Park(Spain)
• Norson Power (UK)
• Owen Trailers (USA)
• Premier Rides (USA)
• Protech
• Pollards (UK)
• PWS (UK)
• Reverchon Industries (France)
• Rollercoaster Corporation of America (USA)
• Ronald Bussink Professional Rides (Switzerland)
• S&S Power
  S&S Power
  
  S&S Power is company known for its pneumatically powered Amusement rides and roller coaster designing.S&S Power was founded by Stan Checketts as S&S Sports, Inc....
   Inc (USA) - Arrow Dynamics
• Safeco (Spain)
• Sally Corp (USA)
• Sartori Rides Int'l Group (Italy) - Claudio Sartori
• SBF Rides (Italy)
• Anton Schwarzkopf
  Anton Schwarzkopf
  
  Anton Schwarzkopf was a prolific and very highly regarded German engineer of amusement rides, and founder of the Schwarzkopf Industries company, which built numerous amusement ride and large roller coasters for both amusement parks and travelling funfairs....
   (Germany)
• Sellner Manufacturing Co (USA)
• Smart Amusements Co (Australia)
• Sobema
• Sother
• Soli s.r.l. (Italy)
• Soriani
• Joe and Perrin Stevens (UK)
• Superides International (UK)
• Sywell Fabrications (Britain) - Henry Thurston
• Technical Park (Italy)
• Thrilltime, Inc
• Tivoli Enterprises
  Tivoli Enterprises
  
  Tivoli Enterprises is known for building thrilling amusement rides. Born in England, this company was started by Richard Woolls. Amtech International acts as a representative for the American companies who want to buy their rides in the U.S....
   (UK) - Richard Woolls
• Top Fun (Italy)
• Traver (US) (bought by Ralph E. Chambers in the 1930s)
• Vekoma
  Vekoma
  
  Vekoma Rides Manufacturing B.V. is a roller coaster and thrill ride designer with its facilities based in the Netherlands. The company was founded in 1926 by Hendrik op het Veld under the name "Veld Koning Machinefabriek" and had first manufactured agricultural machinery and mining equipment....
   (Netherlands)
• Wards (UK)
• White Water West Industries (Canada)
• Wisdom Rides (USA)
• Zamperla
  Zamperla
  
  Zamperla Rides is a designing and manufacturing company in Vicenza, Italy. It is best known for creating thrill rides and roller coasters worldwide....
   (Italy)
• Zierer
  Zierer
  
  File:Wicked at Lagoon.JPGZierer is a Germany company located close to Deggendorf. Zierer manufactures Tivoli and Force line of roller coasters, as well as panoramic wheels, Wave Swingers, magic carpets, Hextentanz and Kontiki rides....
   (Germany)

• Amusement parks
• Amusement park accidents
  Amusement park accidents
  
  Amusement park accidents often result in serious injury or death to somebody visiting or working at an amusement park.Most amusement park accidents are required to be reported to regulatory authorities....
  
• List of Amusement Parks
  List of amusement parks
  
  This page contains a list of amusement parks by* #List of amusement parks by region, and* links to amusement parks listed alphabetically, beginning with the name of the park....
  
• Architectural structure
  Architectural structure
  
  An architectural structure is a free-standing, immobile outdoor construction.The structure may be permanent. Typical examples include buildings and nonbuilding structures such as bridges, dams, electricity pylons, and radio masts....
  
• Closed rides and attractions
  Closed rides and attractions
  
  The following are amusement park amusement ride and attractions that have been closed. Most were closed down years ago, with no known plans to reopen them....
  
• Kiddie rides
  Kiddie rides
  
  Kiddie rides are coin-operated amusement ride for small children. Kiddies rides commonly appear in amusement parks, arcades, Shopping mall, hotel game rooms and outside supermarkets and discount department stores....