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The art or field of entertaining, especially that provided by performers.

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immelman

Entertainment; Amusement parks

A term used by Bolliger and Mabillard to describe their Diving Loop on inverted roller coasters. This element was named for an airplane manuever invented by a German pilot in ...

diving loop

Entertainment; Amusement parks

A term used by Bolliger and Mabillard to describe an inversion similar to an acrobatic stunt plan maneuver. This inversion involves half a vertical loop and a twisting curve ...

wild mouse

Entertainment; Amusement parks

A term that describes a type of roller coaster with sharp, turns that are not banked and quick steep drops. Wild Mouse coaster typically run with two or four passenger individual ...

turnaround

Entertainment; Amusement parks

A term that describes a turn on a roller coaster that sends the train back going in the opposite direction it came from. Turnarounds are common on roller coasters with an out and ...

cobra roll

Entertainment; Amusement parks

A term describing a signature element on some roller coasters designed by Bolliger and Mabillard. The cobra roll is a double inversion similar to Arrow's boomerang element. Riders ...

junior coaster

Entertainment; Amusement parks

A term also used to describe a kiddie coaster or a simple roller coaster designed especially for children.

brake fin

Entertainment; Amusement parks

A straight piece of steel found on the underside of the roller coaster car that slides into and through a fin brake mounted on the tracks. The brake fin may also slide through a ...