A ferris wheel is the giant slow wheel of cabins that lifts you above the fair. Ride the ferris wheel, from the top of the ferris wheel, a ferris wheel at the pier.
It is named after the American engineer who built the first one for the Chicago exposition of 1893, as an answer to the Eiffel Tower. The London Eye is one, though it is called an observation wheel.
1nounferris wheelThe giant slow wheel of cabins that lifts you above the fair.
“From the top of the ferris wheel, we could see the whole town.”
ferris wheel is a ride.
Also accepted in games: big wheel
Ferris wheel named after George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. who built the first such wheel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in In the City, Circus & Fairground