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arcades

  • plural
    of arcade.
    arcade

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Instead of water parks and arcades there are private spas and secluded pools.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 18, 2026

Some 80 percent of the 22,000 arcades Japan had in 1989 have shut down, but revenues have held up thanks to claw machines, according to the Japan Amusement Industry Association.

From Barron's Dec. 26, 2025

And while a modern Chuck E. Cheese is school-cafeteria bright, Chuck’s Arcade is dark, its black walls and low lighting recalling the arcades of the ’80s and ’90s.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2025

Not churches, not schools — Chuck E. Cheese-style pizza arcades, where the air smells like old fryer oil and fresh anticipation, and an animatronic animal band plays on, unfazed by the passing decades.

From Salon Jul. 3, 2025

One of the topiary arcades that leads to the palace gardens holds peek-a-boo flowers that wink light.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton