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Amusement rides, sometimes called carnival rides, are mechanical devices or structures that move people especially kids to create fun and enjoyment.
Rides are often perceived by many as being scary or more dangerous than they actually are. This could be due to the design or from hearing about accidents involving rides that are similar.
They are expected at most annual events such as fairs, traveling carnivals, and circuses around the world. Sometimes music festivals and concerts also host amusement park rides.
/ref> * Gravity rides are those where gravity is responsible for all or some of the movement, and where any vertical movement is not about a fixed point, such as
History of Fairs - Fairground Rides - Modern Rides :: National Fairground Archive
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Amusement rides, sometimes called carnival rides, are mechanical devices or structures that move people especially kids to create fun and enjoyment.
Rides are often perceived by many as being scary or more dangerous than they actually are. This could be due to the design or from hearing about accidents involving rides that are similar.
They are expected at most annual events such as fairs, traveling carnivals, and circuses around the world. Sometimes music festivals and concerts also host amusement park rides.
Types of rides
* Flat rides are usually considered to be those that move their passengers in a plane generally parallel to the ground, such as rides that spin around a vertical axis, like carousels and twists, and ground level rides such as bumper cars and The Whip.Ferris wheels - an illustrated history, Norman D. Anderson/ref> * Gravity rides are those where gravity is responsible for all or some of the movement, and where any vertical movement is not about a fixed point, such as
roller coaster
A roller coaster, or rollercoaster, is a type of amusement ride that employs a form of elevated railroad track designed with tight turns, steep slopes, and sometimes inversions. Passengers ride along the track in open cars, and the rides ar ...
s, water slides, and drop towers.
* Vertical rides usually move their passengers in a vertical plane and around a fixed point, such as Ferris wheels, Enterprise, and Skydiver.
* As of the 2010s, some rides employ virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), e ...
as a part of the ride experience for greater thrill and fun.
Specific themes
* Dark ride * Dodgems * Haunted attraction * Funhouse * Pendulum ride * Rollercoaster * Ferris wheelList of amusement rides
Literature
* Florian Dering: ''Volksbelustigungen. Eine bildreiche Kulturgeschichte von den Fahr-, Belustigungs- und Geschicklichkeitsgeschäften der Schausteller vom achtzehnten Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart.'' Greno, Nördlingen 1986, . * Karl Ruisinger: ''Kirmes Special. Karussells 1950er und 1960er Jahre'' (= ''Kirmes Special'' 1). Gemi Verlag, Reichertshausen 2005, . * Sacha-Roger Szabo: ''Rausch und Rummel. Attraktionen auf Jahrmärkten und in Vergnügungsparks. Eine soziologische Kulturgeschichte.'' transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, (Zugleich: Freiburg, Univ., Diss., 2006).References
External links
* http://www.ride-index.de − Datenbank der Reisenden Fahrgeschäfte in Deutschland (''in German'')History of Fairs - Fairground Rides - Modern Rides :: National Fairground Archive
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