funhouse

See also: fun house

English

"Lost City", a large travelling funhouse that unpacks from two articulated trailers.

Alternative forms

• fun house

Etymology

From fun +‎ house.

Noun

funhouse (plural funhouses)

1. (originally US) A structure, usually at a circus or amusement park, enclosing several interactive attractions such as distorting mirrors, ramps, slides, stairs, rotating barrel slides, etc., that usually do not involve performers.
   • 2003, Cory Doctorow, chapter 6, in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom‎^[1]:

     “It’s not good stewardship. If the guests wanted to walk through a funhouse with guys jumping out of the shadows saying ‘booga-booga,’ they’d go to one of the Halloween Houses in their hometowns. The Mansion’s better than that. I can’t be a part of this plan.”

Derived terms

• funhouse mirror

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: hupitalo, naurutalo (fi)
• Hungarian: elvarázsolt kastély
• Polish: wesołe miasteczko (pl) n
• Swedish: lustigt hus n (literally “funny house”) (usually in the lexicalized (without "det") singular definite "lustiga huset" (the funny house))