winter sport of bobsleigh. Most modern bobsled roller coasters are made of steel; however, the first bobsled coasters, known as Flying Turns, were made of...
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Alpine Bobsled was a steel bobsled roller coaster located at the Six Flags Great Escape and Hurricane Harbor amusement park in Queensbury, New York. Manufactured...
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Matterhorn Bobsleds is a attraction that consists of a pair of intertwined steel roller coasters running through a fabricated mountain. It is located...
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Disaster Transport (category Bobsled roller coasters)
at Cedar Point, the only bobsled roller coaster in the Midwestern United States, and the only enclosed bobsled roller coaster in the world at its debut...
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roller coasters manufactured by Mack Rides opened in 2020 at theme park Efteling in the Netherlands. The coasters replace the bobsled roller coaster at...
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Roller coaster amusement rides have origins back to ice slides constructed in 18th-century Russia. Early technology featured sleds or wheeled carts that...
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Raging Bull is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. Designed by Werner Stengel and manufactured by Bolliger &...
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La Vibora (redirect from Sarajevo Bobsleds)
La Vibora (The Viper) is a steel bobsled roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, Texas, United States. The ride's cars do not run on conventional...
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Flying Turns is the name of a specific model of bobsled roller coaster. John Norman Bartlett, a British aviator in World War I, came to North America after...
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Avalanche (Blackpool Pleasure Beach) (redirect from Avalanche (roller coaster))
steel bobsled roller coaster at Pleasure Beach Resort in Blackpool, England. It is the first and, as of 2022, the only bobsled roller coaster in the...
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A steel roller coaster is a type of roller coaster classified by its steel track, which consists of long steel tubes that are run in pairs, supported by...
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Flying Turns (Knoebels) (category Bobsled roller coasters)
Flying Turns is a wooden bobsled roller coaster at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. It is modeled after a similar ride designed by...
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drop leading out of it. The coaster would be built within a new 20,813 m² area behind the Trace du Hourra bobsled roller coaster and was planned to open for...
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A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride employing a form of elevated railroad track that carries passengers on a train through tight turns, steep...
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Swiss Bob (category Bobsled roller coasters)
Swiss Bob (or "Bobbaan" in Dutch) was a Bobsled roller coaster in the Efteling amusement park in the Netherlands. Construction of the Bob began in 1984...
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Gerstlauer (redirect from Infinity roller coaster)
Gerstlauer's first own-designed and manufactured roller coaster, the 'G'sengte Sau', a bobsled roller coaster, was built in Erlebnispark Tripsdrill, an amusement...
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Reptilian (ride) (category Operating roller coasters)
Reptilian is a bobsled roller coaster located at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, United States. Manufactured by Mack Rides, the roller coaster debuted as...
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A wooden roller coaster is a type of roller coaster classified by its wooden track, which consists of running rails made of flat steel strips mounted on...
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Opryland USA (redirect from Chaos (roller coaster))
Rio. In 1984, Opryland added a third roller coaster, The Screamin' Delta Demon (an Intamin bobsled roller coaster), in the New Orleans area of the park...
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A mine train roller coaster is a steel roller coaster whose trains often depict a set of mine carts, with the forward-most car or portions of it sometimes...
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The Bobcat is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Escape and Hurricane Harbor in Queensbury, New York. Located in the Fest Area section, it was...
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dual-tracked roller coaster is a roller coaster that consists of two tracks. They can be configured as racing, dueling, or Möbius loop roller coasters. Some...
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Blackpool Pleasure Beach (section Roller Coasters)
Hotchkiss Bicycle Railroad. The Irn Bru Revolution The Avalanche bobsled roller coaster Pleasure Beach from The Tower The Grand National Big Dipper with...
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2023 in amusement parks (section Roller coasters)
"90-degree drops, 63 mph and a splashdown: Six Flags Over Texas has a new roller coaster". wfaa.com. February 15, 2023. Stevenson, John (April 1, 2023). "Blasting...
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Knoebels Amusement Resort (redirect from Kozmo's Kurves (roller coaster))
The park has more than 60 rides including three wooden roller coasters, three steel roller coasters, a 1913 carousel, and two haunted house dark rides. The...
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stand-up coaster lead car, Disaster Transport bobsled and track section and three Wildcat cars. Disneyland: Two ride vehicles from the Matterhorn Bobsleds. Hersheypark:...
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List of former Cedar Point attractions (redirect from Super Coaster)
Duane. "Broadway Trip (Cedar Point)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Marden, Duane. "Cyclone (Cedar Point)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Marden, Duane. "Dip the Dips...
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A roller coaster inversion is a roller coaster element in which the track turns riders upside-down and then returns them to an upright position. Early...
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Roller coasters are widely known for their drops, inversions, airtime, and other intense ride elements that contribute to a thrilling ride experience...
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Bolliger & Mabillard (redirect from Sitting Coaster)
Mabillard Consulting Engineers, Inc. and often abbreviated B&M, is a roller coaster design consultancy based in Monthey, Switzerland. The company was founded...
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