Food
A mass of fluffy spun sugar, usually pink or white, wrapped around a stick or a paper cone.
Cotton Candy
Bottles are stacked and you have to throw a ball and knock them all down to win.
Milk Bottle Game
A ride consisting of a giant vertical revolving wheel with passenger cars suspended on its outer edge.
Ferris Wheel
A large plant-eating animal with solid hoofs and a flowing mane and tail, used for riding, racing, and to carry and pull loads.
Horse
This job helps ensure the safety of the public who pay a fee to ride rides at entertainment parks. You assist them with the mechanical operations of park rides by asking riders to fasten belts, bars, or other safety devices.
Ride Operator
This fair food is fried and topped with powdered sugar.
Fried Dough
You toss rings around pegs to win this game.
Ring Toss
A type of amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders typically made to look like animals.
Carousel (Merry-Go-Round)
An animal that has backward curving horns and (in the male) a beard. It is kept for its milk and meat and is noted for its lively and frisky behavior.
Goat
Before you enter the fair, you need to pay admission to these people. Common duties are collecting payments, answering to client inquiries, providing information, and taking phone calls from customers.
Ticket Sellers
Corn of a variety with hard kernels that swell up and burst open with a pop when heated.
Popcorn
You shoot water at a target to win this game.
Water Gun game.
A small electrically powered car with rubber bumpers all around, driven with the aim of bumping into other such cars.
Bumper Cars
A large animal that is known to produce milk or beef.
Cow
Responsible for supplying specific goods or services to individuals or companies. May sell items at a fair, sporting event, market, or any place frequented by consumers.
Vendors
This fair treat is a fruit that is frozen, dipped in something, and usually covered in nuts or sprinkles.
Frozen chocolate covered banana
It consists of a large tank of water over which a volunteer sits on a collapsing seat. When a ball strikes a target, the seat collapses, "dunking" the person into the water.
Dunk Tank
A spinning-platform amusement ride that exposes its riders to unpredictable combinations of tilting, spinning and horizontal movement.
Tilt-A-Whirl
A feathered animal that is known to produce eggs.
Chicken
carnival employee, and the language they use, particularly when the employee plays a game, runs a food stand, or rides at a carnival.
A "Carny" (Carnie)
A paper cup filled with fruit-flavored crushed ice.
Snow Cone
In order to win this game, you have to "whack" a certain animal on the head when they pop out of the hole.
Whack-A-Mole
A ride with cup-shaped spinning vehicles on top of a turntable-like floor.
Teacup Ride
Similar to a goat, an animal with a thick woolly coat and curving horns. It is kept in flocks for its wool or meat.
Sheep
A technician who performs maintenance on ride machinery for a theme park or carnival.
Ride Mechanic