The original Ferris Wheel
Named after designer and constructor George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859–1896) who built the first such wheel.
Ferris wheel (plural Ferris wheels)
- An amusement ride, consisting of an upright rotating wheel having seats that remain in a horizontal position as the wheel revolves.
- Synonyms: (British) big wheel, observation wheel
ride at a fair consisting of large wheel
- Afrikaans: Ferriswiel
- Arabic: دولاب هواء
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: чортава кола n (čórtava kóla)
- Bulgarian: виенското колело (vienskoto kolelo)
- Burmese: ချားရဟတ် (my) (hkya:ra.hat), ရဟတ် (my) (ra.hat)
- Catalan: roda de fira (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 摩天輪/摩天轮 (zh) (mótiānlún)
- Czech: ruské kolo n
- Danish: pariserhjul n
- Dutch: reuzenrad (nl) n
- Esperanto: spektoradego
- Estonian: vaateratas, ilmaratas
- Finnish: maailmanpyörä (fi)
- French: grande roue (fr) f
- Galician: nora (gl) f
- Georgian: ეშმაკის ბორბალი (ešmaḳis borbali), (please verify) სათვალთვალო ბორბლები (satvaltvalo borblebi)
- German: Riesenrad (de) n
- Gujarati: ચકડોળ (gu) (cakḍoḷ)
- Hebrew: גלגל ענק (he) m (galgal ‘anak)
- Hungarian: óriáskerék (hu)
- Icelandic: parísarhjól n
- Indonesian: bianglala (id), kincir ria
- Irish: roth mór m
- Italian: ruota panoramica f
- Japanese: 観覧車 (ja) (かんらんしゃ, kanransha)
- Korean: 관람차 (gwallamcha)
- Mongolian: алсыг харагч (alsyg xaragč)
- Norwegian: pariserhjul n
- Polish: diabelski młyn (pl) m
- Portuguese: roda-gigante (pt) f
- Russian: колесо́ обозре́ния (ru) n (kolesó obozrénija), чёртово колесо́ n (čórtovo kolesó)
- Sotho: lebidi la Ferris
- Spanish: noria (es) f, (Mexico) rueda de la fortuna f, vuelta al mundo (es) f, rueda moscovita f, rueda de Chicago f
- Swedish: pariserhjul (sv) n
- Tagalog: chubibo
- Thai: ชิงช้าสวรรค์ (th) (ching-cháa-sà-wǎn), กระเช้าสวรรค์ (th)
- Turkish: dönme dolap (tr)
- Ukrainian: оглядо́ве ко́лесо (ohljadóve kóleso), чо́ртове ко́лесо (uk) (čórtove kóleso)
- Vietnamese: vòng đu quay, đu quay đứng
- Yiddish: פֿעריס־ראָד f (feris-rod)
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