carousel
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- noun
- /ˈkɛrəˌsɛl/
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tiovivo
- Julia slowly walks towards the carousel, snapping pictures of the children and whirling lights.
I could hot wire one of those, you know, those little carousels outside of a outside of a grocery.
- I could hot wire one of those, you know, those little carousels outside of a outside of a grocery.
- And I started looking at all the objects of childhood, things like hula hoops and bubbles and balloons and bouncy balls and merry go rounds and carousels.
- They would just like that was their decor were carousel horses.
- I would have snatched that little asshole up by the hair and dragged him off that carousel and that little bitch at the end.
- And if you do give it to a narcissist, recognize that you are on a carousel that's going to keep going around and around and around.
Examples
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This is the boardwalk, so the entrance is back that way and then there's a carousel right there.
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Guys, somebody left a carousel horse out here.
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Maybe we should take him to the carousel again.
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That looks just like our little carousel back home.
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We're riding a carousel in a restaurant.
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Ah, I was just showing Nick your carousel.
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Faye suddenly jumped to her feet and ran off to board the carousel.
Fiction book (2000) -
On our last day, we went to the beautiful 100-year-old Looff Carousel in Spokane's Riverfront Park.
Blog text (6) -
The children laughed as they rode on the carousel, their seats shaped like colorful animals.
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We spent the afternoon at the fair, enjoying the bright lights of the carousel spinning in the center.
Synonyms
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2.0
A machine at an amusement park that people sit on for fun
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A round ride with seats shaped like animals that turns for people to sit on
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A rotating ride with seats, often shaped like horses, for children
A rotating ride with seats often shaped like horses for children to ride
A fair ride that spins with seats for children to sit in
A fairground ride with horse-shaped seats that move up and down as it turns
A fair ride with seats that spin in circles to music
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Etymology
Carousel (amusement ride) comes from the French word carrousel, a show where horse riders turned in a circle as part of a mock 'battle', and the fair ride copies that image with horses on a round platform that go 'round and 'round.