List of amusement rides

"Rides" redirects here. For other uses, see Rides (disambiguation).
"Carnival ride" redirects here. For the album by Carrie Underwood, see Carnival Ride.

Amusement rides, sometimes called carnival rides, are mechanical devices or structures that move people to create enjoyment. They are frequently found at funfairs.

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.[1][2]

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.[1]

Vertical rides usually move their passengers in a vertical plane and around a fixed point, such as Ferris wheels, Enterprise, and Skydiver.[1]

This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
Title Image Type Notes
Ali Baba Pendulum ride
Alpine slide
AquaLoop Water ride
Backyard railroad Train ride
Balloon Race
Bayern Kurve
Black hole Dark ride
Booster (Fabbri) Pendulum ride
Booster (HUSS)
Breakdance
Bumper boats Water ride
Bumper cars
Carousel
Caterpillar
Chairlift
Cliffhanger
Condor
Disk'O
Dive Bomber[3]
Double Shot Drop tower
Enterprise
Evolution
Ferris wheel
Fireball
Fishpipe Water ride
FlowRider Water ride
Flying Scooters
Freefall Drop tower
Frisbee Pendulum ride
Fun Slide
Gravitron
Gyro tower
Hayride
Helter skelter
Hurricane
Jump and Smile
Kamikaze Pendulum ride
Kiddie ride
Lazy river Water ride
Log flume Water ride
Looping Starship Pendulum ride
Loop-O-Plane
Loop-the-Loop[4]
Madhouse Dark ride
Matterhorn
Mechanical bull
Monster
Motion simulator
Music Express
Octopus
Old Mill Water ride
Omnimover Train ride
Orbiter
Paratrooper
Pirate Ship Pendulum ride
Power Surge
Rainbow
Ranger Pendulum ride
Red Baron
Reverse bungee
River caves Water ride
River rapids ride Water ride
Rockin' Tug
Rock-O-Plane
Roller coaster Train ride 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.
Roll-O-Plane
Rotor
Round Up
Russian Mountains
Screamin' Swing Pendulum ride
Shoot the Chute Water ride
Sky Swat
Skycoaster
Skydiver
Space Shot Drop tower
Speed Pendulum ride
Spin Out
Star Flyer Swing ride
Super Shot Drop tower
Super Star
Swing Around
Swing boat Pendulum ride
Tagada
Teacups
The Whip
Tilt-A-Whirl
Top Scan
Top Spin
Topple Tower Pendulum ride
Tornado (Mondial)
Tornado (ProSlide) Water ride
Tornado (Wisdom)
Tow boat ride Water ride
Troika
Tumble Bug
Tunnel of love Dark ride
Turbo Drop Drop tower
Twist
UFO
UltraMax
Waltzer Water ride
Water slide Water ride
Wind Seeker Swing ride
Wipeout Water ride
Zipper Water ride

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amusement rides.