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| admission |
Admission is the money you pay to enter a place, such as a movie theater, museum, or amusement park. [1/3 definitions] |
| amusement park |
An amusement park is an outdoor place with games, rides, and other things that are fun to see or do. |
| bumper car |
A bumper car is one of the very small electric cars that people can ride in at a fair or amusement park. The little cars are all together inside one place. People get in the cars and ride them around trying to bump into other cars or escape from being bumped. The cars are designed to be safe and fun. |
| cotton candy |
a candy made of soft, tiny bits of melted sugar spun around a stick or paper cone. Cotton candy looks like a mass of cotton but melts very quickly in one's mouth. Cotton candy is often sold at outdoor events such as fairs or festivals, or at amusement parks. |
| fair2 |
A fair is an event at which farm animals and things grown on a farm are shown and judged. There are usually games, shows, food, and other things to do at a fair too. Sometimes there are rides like in an amusement park. [1/3 definitions] |
| Ferris wheel |
a ride at a carnival or amusement park made of a very large upright wheel with seats hanging from the rim. A motor turns the wheel while people sit in the seats. |
| ride |
a mechanical thing, such as a merry-go-round or roller coaster, that people can ride for fun at a place like a fair or amusement park. [1/5 definitions] |
| roller coaster |
an amusement park ride in which a train of open cars rides up and down a winding track. |
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