merry-go-round
Also called carousel . (in amusement parks, carnivals, etc.) a revolving, circular platform with wooden horses or other animals, benches, etc., on which people may sit or ride, usually to the accompaniment of mechanical or recorded music.
a rapid whirl or a busy round, as of social life or business affairs.
Origin of merry-go-round
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How to use merry-go-round in a sentence
You need some scuff marks from the great merry-go-round we call life.
When he finally emerged in “a country lane,” he felt as if he had “jumped off a merry-go-round.”
Walking In The Footsteps Of W.G. Sebald, Hiker, Novelist, Strange Genius | Edward Platt | June 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe worst thing they do is break into a zoo and ride the merry-go-round.
What the New ‘Endless Love’s Fireplace Sex Scene Is Missing | Sujay Kumar | February 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnybody can push a merry-go-round, or push their buddy on sled down a hill.
Is It Really That Easy to be an Olympic Bobsledder? | Kevin Fixler | January 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHired as a mechanic, he would soon find himself behind the wheel, yet “he found oval racing a deadening merry-go-round.”
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Once Drouet took Whistler to the fair at Neuilly, made him ride in a merry-go-round.
The Life of James McNeill Whistler | Elizabeth Robins PennellIt was a merry-go-round of coasters climbing up single file by the slide while coaster after coaster shot singly down.
Watched by Wild Animals | Enos A. MillsThereat the Girl Scouts' washing went on as merrily as a merry-go-round at a picnic.
The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest | Lillian GarisAnd she visited a merry-go-round, and took part in a seaside pageant.
Polly in New York | Lillian Elizabeth RoyHe felt as he had once felt in his rash youth when another boy had enticed him on the merry-go-round at a picnic.
Anne Of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery
British Dictionary definitions for merry-go-round
another name for roundabout (def. 1)
a whirl of activity or events: the merry-go-round of the fashion world
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