Crossword clues for amusement park
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A commercially-operated collection of rides, games and other entertainment attractions.
WordNet
n. a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement [syn: funfair, pleasure ground]
Wikipedia
An amusement park (sometimes referred to as a funfair) or theme park is a group of entertainment attractions, rides, and other events in a location for the enjoyment of large numbers of people. Amusement parks have a fixed location, as opposed to travelling funfairs and traveling carnivals, and are more elaborate than simple city parks or playgrounds, usually providing attractions meant to cater specifically to certain age groups, as well as some that are aimed towards all ages. Theme parks, a specific type of amusement park, are usually much more intricately themed to a certain subject or group of subjects than normal amusement parks.
Amusement parks evolved from European fairs and pleasure gardens, which were created for people's recreation. World's fairs and expositions were another influence on the development of the amusement park industry.
In common language, the terms theme park and amusement park are often synonymous. However, a theme park can be regarded as a distinct style of amusement park. A theme park has landscaping, buildings, and attractions that are based on one or more specific themes or stories. Despite many older parks adding themed rides and areas, qualifying the park as a theme park, the first park built with the original intention of promoting a specific theme, Santa Claus Land, in Santa Claus, Indiana, did not open until 1946. Disneyland, located in Anaheim, California, built around the concept of encapsulating multiple theme parks into a single amusement park is often mistakenly cited as the first themed amusement park, but is instead the park that made the idea popular.
"Amusement Park" is a Hip-Hop/Rap song by American rapper 50 Cent from his third album Curtis, which was released in 2007. The music video premiered on Yahoo!'s website on May 16, 2007. The track is a smooth song that uses different amusement park rides as metaphors for sex.
Usage examples of "amusement park".
I can't really expect an amusement park to undo in a week the damage a dull job does in fifty, but I do.
Meanwhile, Disney had started to create amusement park rides of great technological sophistication, and they employed a lot of aerospace people.
On the elevator wall behind him was a large poster of Joyland Park, an amusement park that Jenny had loved as a kid.
Jenny had the feeling that all her worst amusement park nightmares were about to come true.
He'd done two skyscrapers in New York, an oil refinery in Delaware, an amusement park in Ohio, and two huge housing projects elsewhere, earning a reputation for bringing things in early and under budget not a bad rep for someone in his business.
It is a profoundly thrilling experience to walk up and down this famous street - you may smirk, but you would feel just the same and you know it - and it comes as something of a shock to round the corner at either end and find yourself back in an amusement park.
This stretch of highway between Portland and Portsmouth had once been a seventy-mile amusement park and now it was only a haunted funhouse where all the clockwork had run down.
And this is a run-of-the-mill amusement park on a backwater planet.