List of amusement rides
Amusement rides, sometimes called carnival rides, are mechanical devices or structures that move people to create enjoyment.
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.
- 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 coasters and water slides.
- Vertical rides usually move their passengers in a vertical plane and around a fixed point, such as Ferris wheels, Enterprise, and Skydiver.
Specific themes
- Dark ride
- Dodgems
- Drop tower
- Helter Skelter
- Kiddie Ride
- Merry-Go-Round
- Observation Tower
- Pendulum ride
- Pirate Ship
- Roller coaster
- Scrambler
- Simulator ride
- Swing ride
- Tilt-A-Whirl
- Water ride
- Teacup ride
- Ferris wheel
- Gardyloo
- Haunted attraction
- Funhouse
List of amusement rides
| Year | Name | Image | Type | Notes | - |
| Ali Baba | Pendulum ride | - | |||
| Alpine slide | - | ||||
| Balloon Race | - | ||||
| 1965 | Bayern Kurve | - | |||
| Booster | Pendulum ride | - | |||
| 1998 | Booster | - | |||
| 1985 | Breakdance | - | |||
| 1972 | Bumper boats | Water ride | - | ||
| 1920s | Bumper cars | Dodgems | - | ||
| 1700s | Carousel | Merry-Go-Round | - | ||
| 1925 | Caterpillar | - | |||
| Cliffhanger | - | ||||
| 1984 | Condor | - | |||
| 2003 | Disk'O | - | |||
| c.1910 | Devil's wheel | - | |||
| Double Shot | Drop tower | - | |||
| 1972 | Enterprise | - | |||
| 1992 | Evolution | - | |||
| 1893 | Ferris wheel | - | |||
| Fireball | - | ||||
| 1930s | Flying Scooters | - | |||
| Freak out | Pendulum ride | ||||
| 1982 | Freefall | Drop tower | - | ||
| 1994 | Frisbee | Pendulum ride | - | ||
| Fun Slide | - | ||||
| 1983 | Gravitron | - | |||
| Gyro tower | - | ||||
| Hayride | - | ||||
| 1905 | Helter skelter | - | |||
| 1940s | Hurricane | - | |||
| Infinity | Pendulum ride | - | |||
| Inversion | Pendulum ride | - | |||
| Jump and Smile | - | ||||
| 1984 | Kamikaze | Pendulum ride | - | ||
| Kiddie ride | - | ||||
| 1963 | Log flume | Water ride | - | ||
| 1982 | Looping Starship | Pendulum ride | - | ||
| Loop Fighter | Pendulum ride | - | |||
| 1933 | Loop-O-Plane | - | |||
| Loop-the-Loop | - | ||||
| Madhouse | Dark ride | - | |||
| Matterhorn | - | ||||
| 1930s | Mechanical bull | - | |||
| Monster | - | ||||
| 1986 | Motion simulator | - | |||
| Music Express | - | ||||
| Octopus | - | ||||
| Old Mill | Water ride | - | |||
| 1968 | Omnimover | - | |||
| 1976 | Orbiter | - | |||
| 1957 | Paratrooper | - | |||
| c.1893 | Pirate Ship | Pendulum ride | - | ||
| 1999 | Power Surge | - | |||
| 1983 | Rainbow | - | |||
| 1981 | Ranger | Pendulum ride | - | ||
| Red Baron | - | ||||
| c.1978 | Reverse bungee | - | |||
| River caves | Water ride | - | |||
| 1980 | River rapids ride | Water ride | - | ||
| 1978 | Rockin' Tug | - | |||
| 1948 | Rock-O-Plane | - | |||
| Rockstar | Pendulum ride | ||||
| 1700s | Roller coaster | The roller coaster is an amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. LaMarcus Adna Thompson obtained a patent regarding roller coasters on January 20, 1885, which were made out of wood, but this patent is considerably later than the "Russian mountains" described in the article. | - | ||
| 2013 | Rollglider | The Rollglider is a type of a thrill amusement ride that has a steel pipe track designed with turns, dips and loops, using gravity-propelled trolleys to slide down the track. | - | ||
| Roll-O-Plane | - | ||||
| 1940s | Rotor | - | |||
| Round Up | - | ||||
| 2004 | Screamin' Swing | Pendulum ride | - | ||
| 1884 | Shoot the Chute | Water ride | - | ||
| 2003 | Sky Swat | - | |||
| 1992 | Skycoaster | - | |||
| 1965 | Skydiver | - | |||
| 1996 | Space Shot | Drop tower | - | ||
| Speed | Pendulum ride | - | |||
| Star Flyer | Swing ride | - | |||
| Super Shot | Drop tower | - | |||
| 1996 | Super Star | - | |||
| 1960 | Swing Around | - | |||
| Swing boat | Pendulum ride | - | |||
| Tagada | - | ||||
| Teacups | - | ||||
| 1914 | The Whip | - | |||
| 1926 | Tilt-A-Whirl | - | |||
| 1996 | Top Scan | - | |||
| 1990 | Top Spin | - | |||
| 2002 | Topple Tower | Pendulum ride | - | ||
| Tornado | - | ||||
| Tornado | - | ||||
| Tow boat ride | Water ride | - | |||
| 1970s | Troika | - | |||
| Tumble Bug | - | ||||
| 1800s | Tunnel of love | Dark ride | - | ||
| Turbo Drop | Drop tower | - | |||
| Twist | - | ||||
| 1978 | UFO | - | |||
| UltraMax | - | ||||
| 1933 | Waltzer | - | |||
| 1963 | Wipeout | - | |||
| 1968 | Zipper | - |
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. Gemi Verlag, Reichertshausen 2005,.
- Sacha-Roger Szabo: Rausch und Rummel. Attraktionen auf Jahrmärkten und in Vergnügungsparks. Eine soziologische Kulturgeschichte. transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, .