English
A red rollercoaster in the background
Alternative forms
Noun
rollercoaster (plural rollercoasters)
- An amusement ride consisting of a buggy on a track that rises, falls, twists and turns.
- (by extension) Any situation in which there are violent changes.
- Our relationship was quite a rollercoaster. Finally, I had enough of it and left her.
- The stock market has been quite the rollercoaster in the last few weeks.
Synonyms
Translations
amusement ride
- Arabic: اُفْعُوَانِيَّة f (ufʿuwāniyya)
- Belarusian: амерыканскія горкі f pl (amjerykanskija horki)
- Burmese: ရိုလာကိုစတာ (ruilakuica.ta)
- Catalan: muntanyes russes f pl (Russian mountains)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 過山車 (zh), 过山车 (zh) (guòshānchē), 雲霄飛車 (zh), 云霄飞车 (zh) (yúnxiāofēichē), 空中飛車, 空中飞车 (kōngzhōngfēichē)
- Czech: horská dráha (cs) f
- Danish: rutschebane
- Dutch: achtbaan (nl) c
- Esperanto: onda fervojo
- Estonian: Ameerika mäed pl
- Faroese: øka f
- Finnish: vuoristorata (fi)
- French: montagnes russes (fr) f pl (Russian mountains)
- Galician: montaña rusa f
- German: Achterbahn (de) f
- Greek: τρενάκι του λούνα παρκ (trenáki tou loúna park)
- Hebrew: רַכֶּבֶת הָרִים (he) f (rakevet harim)
- Hungarian: hullámvasút (hu)
- Icelandic: rússíbani m
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- Italian: montagne russe f pl, otto volante (it) m, ottovolante (it) m
- Japanese: ローラーコースター (rōrākōsutā), ジェットコースター (jettokōsutā)
- Korean: 롤러코스터 (ko) (rolleokoseuteo)
- Macedonian: лу́да желе́зница f (lúda želéznica)
- Mongolian: галзуу хулгана (galzuu hulgana)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: berg-og-dal-bane m
- Nynorsk: berg-og-dal-bane m, f
- Persian: رولرکستر (rolerkoster), قطار هوایی (qatâr-e havâyi)
- Polish: kolejka górska f
- Portuguese: montanha-russa (pt) f (Russian mountain)
- Romansch: muntogna russa f
- Russian: америка́нские го́рки f pl (amerikánskije górki) (American hills)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: vlak smrti m
- Slovak: horská dráha f
- Spanish: montaña rusa f (Russian mountain)
- Swedish: bergochdalbana (sv) c, berg-och-dal-bana (sv) c
- Thai: รถไฟเหาะตีลังกา (rót fai hòr dtii lang-gaa)
- Vietnamese: tàu lượn siêu tốc (vi)
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