Wiktionary
n. A small electric-powered vehicle encircled with a rubber bumper, used in an amusement ride.
WordNet
n. a small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged [syn: Dodgem]
Usage examples of "bumper car".
Stealing roadblocks from the police, we closed off a stretch of the 405 Freeway near Long Beach one Wednesday night, illuminated the site with flares, and three at a time pretended to be on a bumper car course, speeding forward, throwing the vehicles into reverse, sideswiping whichever car we could.
Then a life-and-death scramble through charging traffic into small roads again, past North American-style houses very like their own to the glass-and-plastic village with its Charlie Pops and McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken and the funfair where Mark had his arm broken by an enemy bumper car last Fourth of July, and when they got to the hospital it was full of kids with firework burns.
A picture of bumper car rides at the county fair flashed behind Anna's eyes.