Roundabout (play)
A spinning playground disk offering dizzying fun and developmental benefits.
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A roundabout, also known as a merry-go-round or carousel, is a piece of playground equipment consisting of a flat disk, typically 2 to 3 meters in diameter, with bars for hand-holds and leaning. It is commonly found in school playgrounds and public parks, offering riders a dizzying experience when spun by others or by running around it and jumping on. A variant, the HAGS Pedal Roundabout, uses pedal-powered exercise bikes to provide rotary motion.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Playground equipment
- Common names
- Roundabout
- merry-go-round
- carousel
- Found in
- School playgrounds and public parks
- Notable variant
- HAGS Pedal Roundabout
- Related innovation
- Roundabout PlayPump
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Background
The roundabout is a flat disk, often about 2 to 3 meters in diameter, with bars that serve as hand-holds and leaning supports. It can be spun by pushing or pulling on its handles, either by running around the outside or by pulling and re-grabbing from a stationary stance. If mounted at a tilt, the disk can be sped up without further pushing by riders leaning into the center while ascending and leaning out while descending, due to the physics of angular momentum.
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Sources
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- Wikipedia: Roundabout (play) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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