carousel
32
2.1
- noun
- /ˈkɛrəˌsɛl/
- Julia slowly walks towards the carousel, snapping pictures of the children and whirling lights.
Loading YouTube…
Watch on YouTubeI 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
-
This is the boardwalk, so the entrance is back that way and then there's a carousel right there.
-
Guys, somebody left a carousel horse out here.
-
Maybe we should take him to the carousel again.
-
That looks just like our little carousel back home.
-
We're riding a carousel in a restaurant.
-
Ah, I was just showing Nick your carousel.
-
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.
-
We spent the afternoon at the fair, enjoying the bright lights of the carousel spinning in the center.
Synonyms
331
2.0
A machine at an amusement park that people sit on for fun
10
3.0
A round ride with seats shaped like animals that turns for people to sit on
1
3.4
A rotating ride with seats, often shaped like horses, for children
1
8.5
A fair ride that spins with seats for children to sit in
1
2.9
A rotating ride with seats often shaped like horses for children to ride
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
Compounds
How Exciting
Surface Forms
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.