themepark

See also: theme park

English

Noun

themepark (plural themeparks)

1. Alternative form of theme park.
   • 1996 May, Paul Di Filippo, Richard Parks, Elizabeth Hand, “Bisson discovers literary fire with aliens, wars, and space-dwelling whales”, in Science Fiction Age, volume 4, number 4, Herndon, Va.: Sovereign Media Co., Inc., →ISSN, page 14, column 3:

     With a nature sweeter than this ill treatment merits, Gun manages to do the right thing, while taking the reader along for a splendid themepark ride.

   • 1997 July 1, David Samuels, “Bringing down the house: An explosion in Las Vegas plays as performance art”, in Harper’s Magazine, New York, N.Y., →ISSN; published in “Bringing Down the House”, in Only Love Can Break Your Heart, New York, N.Y.: The New Press, 2008, →ISBN, pages 164–165:

     Set to rise on the site where the Sands now stands is Sheldon Adelson's $2 billion Venetian, the latest in the wave of themepark casinos that began with the MGM Grand and the Luxor and now includes New York, New York, with its one-third-scale replicas of the Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty crisscrossed by a giant Coney Island roller coaster.

   • 2006, Mike Davis, Planet of Slums, London, New York, N.Y.: Verso, →ISBN, pages 47 and 202:

     Anthropologist Monique Skidmore risked arrest to visit some of the dismal peri-urban townships – so-called “New Fields” – outside Rangoon where the military dictatorship forcibly relocated hundreds of thousands of urbanites whose former slums stood in the way of the tourist-themepark rebuilding of the city center. […] As the Third World middle classes increasingly bunker themselves in their suburban themeparks and electrified “security villages,” they lose moral and cultural insight into the urban badlands they have left behind.