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.

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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