amusement park
a large park equipped with such recreational devices as a merry-go-round, Ferris wheel, roller coaster, etc., and usually having booths for games and refreshments.
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How to use amusement park in a sentence
Entire shifts of employees at fast-food restaurants, amusement parks and airports are walking off their jobs, pasting handwritten notes on the doors that say we quit.
Hourly Workers Are Demanding Better Pay and Benefits—and Getting Them | Alana Semuels | July 22, 2021 | TimeThe impression is not unlike that of an amusement park, or sitting through those scenes in Harry Potter movies, in which human figures in paintings are made to seem alive, changing their facial expressions or walking in and out of their frames.
Van Gogh’s images move in the cinematic ‘Immersive Van Gogh.’ But will the show move New Yorkers? | Peter Marks | June 17, 2021 | Washington PostThey remain lifelong friends with their fellow “Milts,” as alums and students call themselves, and look back fondly on weekend trips to amusement parks or the Baltimore waterfront.
“I Finally Got to the Mountaintop and I Failed” | by Bob Fernandez, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Charlotte Keith, Spotlight PA | June 10, 2021 | ProPublicaMoney Hungry, Ben & Jerry’s, The Globe, Tiny Food Fight, and the one where chocolate makers have to run around an abandoned amusement park in the middle of the night are indeed real shows.
Can You Guess Which of These Ridiculous Food Network Shows Are Real? | Jaya Saxena | June 3, 2021 | EaterIt’s like a miniature amusement park or a home-sized movie studio.
Exploring the Wild World of Weird Homes on Zillow Can Be a Cabin Fever Cure | Megan McCluskey | March 15, 2021 | Time
British Dictionary definitions for amusement park
an open-air entertainment area consisting of stalls, side shows, etc
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