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Nouns.
Amusement and theme parks.
- acrobat (plural: acrobats) one who is skilled in feats of balance and agility in gymnastics.
- admission permission to enter or the right, authority, etc, to enter; the price charged for entrance.
- attraction (plural: attractions) a characteristic or quality that provides pleasure; attractive feature.
- bumper car (plural: cars) a low-powered electrically propelled vehicle driven and bumped against similar cars in a special rink at a funfair.
- carousel/merry-go-round (plural: carousels) a revolving circular platform provided with wooden animals, seats, etc, on which people ride for amusement.
- clown (plural: clowns) a comic entertainer, usually grotesquely costumed and made up, appearing in the circus.
- costume (plural: costumes) a set of clothes worn in order to look like someone or something else, especially for a party or as part of entertainment.
- cotton candy (plural: candies) a very light fluffy confection made from coloured spun sugar, usually held on a stick.
- ferris wheel (plural: wheels) an amusement ride consisting of a large upright rotating wheel having suspended seats that remain in a horizontal position as the wheel revolves.
- fireworks a show consisting of a combination of explosives and combustibles, set off to generate colored lights, smoke, and noise for amusement.
- line (plural: lines) a row of persons.
- magician (plural: magicians) a person who performs sleight-of-hand tricks or other illusions,
- prize (plural: prizes) a reward or honor for victory or for having won a contest.
- ride (plural: rides) a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement.
- roller coaster (plural: coasters) a steep, sharply curving elevated railway with small open passenger cars that is operated at high speeds as a ride, especially in an amusement park.
- theme park (plural: parks) an amusement park designed around a central theme, such as the world of the future, or divided into areas with different themes.
- ticket booth (plural: booths) the place where tickets of admission are sold.
- trapeze (plural: trapezes) a free-swinging bar attached to two ropes, used by circus acrobats.
- water slide (plural: water slides) a continuously wetted chute (as at an amusement park) down which people slide into a pool.
Aquariums.
- aquarium (plural: aquariums) a transparent tank of water in which fish and other water creatures and plants are kept.
- coral a hard stony substance secreted by certain marine lifeas an external skeleton, typically forming large reefs in warm seas.
- crab (plural: crabs) a sea creature with five pairs of legs and a round, flat body covered by a shell.
- dolphin (plural: dolphins) any of various marine mammals that are typically smaller than whales and larger than porpoises and have a beaklike snout.
- fish a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal gills and fins and living wholly in water.
- fish tank (plural: tanks) a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals.
- goldfish a small, shiny, gold or orange fish that is often kept as a pet in a bowl or garden pool.
- lobster (plural: lobsters) a sea creature with a soft, oval body and eight tentacles.
- manta ray any large ray (fish) having very wide winglike pectoral fins and feeding on plankton.
- marine biology the scientific study of organisms living in or dependent on the oceans.
- marine life the plants, animals, and other organisms that live in the salt water of seas or oceans.
- ocean (plural: oceans) a very large stretch of sea, especially one of the five oceans of the world, the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic.
- octopus (plural: octopuses/octopi)
- oyster (plural: oysters) any of a number of mollusks with rough irregular shells. Several kinds are eaten (especially raw) as a delicacy and may be farmed for food or pearls.
- otter (plural: otters) an aquatic mammal having webbed feet and dense, dark brown fur.
- penguin (plural: penguins) flightless aquatic birds of the Southern Hemisphere, having flipperlike wings and webbed feet adapted for swimming and diving.
- porpoise (plural: porpoises) any of several small, toothed whales having a blunt snout and a triangular dorsal fin.
- seahorse (plural: seahorses) a fish having a bony-plated body, a prehensile tail, and a horselike head and swimming in an upright position.
- sea lion (plural: lions) an eared seal occurring mainly on Pacific coasts. the large male of which has a mane on the neck and shoulders.
- seashell (plural: seashells) the empty shell of a small sea creature.
- seaweed large algae growing in the sea or on rocks.
- shark (plural: sharks) a large sea fish with very sharp teeth and a pointed fin on its back.
- snail (plural: snails) a mollusk with a single spiral shell into which the whole body can be withdrawn.
- species a set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics to each other and can breed with each other.
- sponge (plural: sponges) a marine animal with a porous structure.
- squid (plural: squids) a sea creature that’s similar to an octopus but has ten arms instead of eight.
- starfish a flat animal that lives in the sea and has five arms that grow from its body in the shape of a star.
- stingray (plural: stingrays) a large, flat, round fish with a long tail that has poisonous points on it.
- swordfish a large, highly migratory, predatory fish characterized by a long, flat, pointed bill.
- walrus (plural: walruses) a large gregarious marine mammal of arctic waters related to the seals that has limbs modified into webbed flippers, long ivory tusks, a tough wrinkled hide, stiff whiskers, and a thick layer of blubber.
- whale (plural: whales) a very large marine mammal with a streamlined hairless body, a horizontal tail fin, and a blowhole on top of the head for breathing.
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