Synonyms of the word

merry-go-round

• n. carousel; a pleasure ride consisting of a slowly revolving circular platform affixed with various types…
• n. a piece of playground equipment in the style of a merry-go-round.
• n. (figuratively) A dead-end search; a bustle of activity that gets nowhere.
• n. (rail transport) A freight train of hopper goods wagons which loads and unloads its cargo while moving.

carousel

• n. a merry-go-round.
• n. a continuously revolving device for item delivery.
• n. the rotating glass plate in a microwave oven.
• n. (Internet, graphical user interface) A visual component that displays a series of images one at a time.

carrousel

• n. a ride in a carnival or circus, or park, that usually has seats fashioned like horses or other animals.
• n. a means of retrieving luggage at an airport or other travel area.

cycle

• n. An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
• n. A complete rotation of anything.
• n. A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
• n. The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
• n. (music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly…
• n. A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
• n. A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
• n. A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle; or, motorized vehicle that has either…
• n. (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
• n. (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
• n. An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
• n. An age; a long period of time.
• n. An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
• n. (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
• v. To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
• v. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
• v. (electronics) To turn power off and back on.
• v. (ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing…

ride

• v. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle…
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
• v. (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such…
• v. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
• v. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
• v. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
• v. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
• v. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
• v. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
• n. An instance of riding.
• n. (informal) A vehicle.
• n. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
• n. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
• n. (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
• n. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
• n. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

roundabout

• adj. Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
• adj. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
• n. (chiefly Britain, New Zealand, Canada and Australia) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A children's play apparatus, often found in parks, which rotates around a central axis…
• n. A fairground carousel.
• n. A detour.
• n. A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.

whirligig

• n. Anything that whirls or spins around, such as a toy top.
• n. A whirligig beetle.
• n. A device for punishing prisoners comprising a wooden cage that rapidly spins around.