wall of death

noun

1. (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides

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Then “a pitch black wall of death.”

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Inspired by the “wall of death” amusement park attraction, in which daredevils on motorbikes ride parallel to the ground along the inside wall of a giant cylinder, researchers at the University of Milan wondered whether they could devise a similar setup for space runners.

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Researchers had two participants, one man and one woman, attempt to run inside a borrowed wall of death cylinder while harnessed to a counterbalance that mimicked the Moon’s gravity.

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Motorcycles race at impossible angles on a carnival’s Wall of Death.

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Danny Weil rides a motorcycle in a carnival motordrome known as the “Wall of Death,” which he says is only one of three left in the U.S.

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