English

Alternative forms

• white knuckle ride

Noun

white-knuckle ride ‎(plural white-knuckle rides)

1. An extremely exciting ride at an amusement park, etc., where one's hands grip on so tightly that the knuckles appear white.
   • 2003, Colin McArthur, Brigadoon Braveheart and the Scots, IB Tauris, p. 139,

     A newly-devised ‘white-knuckle’ ride in a funfair was named ‘the Braveheart ride’.

2. (figuratively) Any extremely exciting or nerve-wracking experience.
   • 2007, The Guardian, G2, 22 Jun., p. 3,

     They must be insane to think Judy Finnegan would retire from the daily white-knuckle ride that is live television with Richard Madeley.