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the only ride that promises adventure while guaranteeing you end exactly where you started
means A rotating amusement ride with seats, typically shaped like horses, that turns in a circle to music — or, by extension, any revolving system, like the conveyor that delivers your luggage at the airport.
from From the French 'carrousel,' a kind of tournament or knightly exhibition where horsemen rode in formation and performed mounted games. The French likely borrowed it from the Italian 'carosello.' Beyond that the trail goes murky: one suggestion links it to Italian 'garosello,' a little quarrel or mock combat, though this is uncertain. The leap to the spinning fairground ride came because such rides imitated those mounted military games — wooden horses circling where real ones once did.
- horse direction
- American carousels spin counterclockwise, European ones clockwise
- war origin
- named for a knightly cavalry training game in Italy
- outer ring
- biggest horses go outside to grab the brass ring
- jumpers vs standers
- only some horses actually move up and down
- oldest survivor
- a working carousel from 1780 still spins in Germany
carousel du laque geneva — historic 1900 carousel in geneva's parc de la grange featuring ornate hand-carved animals
dentzel carousel philadelphia — 1896 carousel in philadelphia's fairmount park, one of oldest continuously operating in america