Roll up, roll up, ladies and gentlemen! Come join us at the funfair and the circus today and improve your English vocabulary.
Funfair and circus vocabulary
At the funfair / amusement park
shooting alley / shooting range
bumper cars / dodgems
candy floss
toffee apples
carousel / merry-go-round
slot machines
arcade games / amusement(s) arcade
ferris wheel/big wheel
rollercoaster / loop the loop
helter skelter
ghost train
bouncy castle
hall of mirrors
water slide
At the circus
Idiom: A circus (something noisy and confused) – This situation could turn into a media circus.
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the big top
ringmaster
acrobats
trapeze artist
tightrope walker
Idiom: To walk/tread a tightrope – “Many manufacturers have to walk a tightrope between pricing their goods too high and not selling them, and pricing them low and losing money.”
stiltwalker
knife thrower
sword swallower
safety net
Idiom: to have a safety net – “The welfare system was set up to provide a safety net for the poor.”
clowns
Idiom: to clown around – “Stop clowning around at the back of the class and do some work!”
A clown – a silly, clumsy or unprofessional person.
“Send in the clowns!” –
Traditionally, if a theatre performance went badly wrong, one of the theatre company members would say this and the clowns would enter the stage to take attention away from the failed performance.
juggler
fire-eater
human cannonball
lion tamer
contortionist
bed of nails
Indian rope trick
…and now it’s your turn to practise your English.
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