What is the difference between a Merry Go Round and a Carousel?

Answer 1

there is no difference.

Answer 2

Is not that there is a difference - all Merry Go Rounds are Carousels, but not all Carousels are Merry Go Rounds. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel for more information about the similarities and differences.

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Answer 3

What's the difference between a square and a rectangle? One is a special case of the other. Usually a carousel, in my mind, is a fancy merry-go-round often with horses, elephants, etc. to ride upon. When you enter a certain field, you find yourself obligated to expand your vocabulary in order to be accepted by the cognoscenti (those in the know), for example you'll get a different answer asking "What's a rib?" if you ask a miner, a cook, a 60's beatnik or a comedian*. If you're not in that situation, many times ordinary people use different terms to describe one thing (couch, sofa, davenport, settee, etc.)based upon their background and yet there's not an inch of daylight worth of difference between the meaning ascribed. This is just the opposite of what happens in most communications breakdowns where people have totally different points of view while using the same words. * side wall of a mine while the 'back' is the top; food selection; woman; roast-type joke

Answer 4

A carousel (or carrousel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating platform with seats for passengers. The "seats" are traditionally in the form of wooden horses or animals, which are often moved mechanically up and down to simulate galloping. This leads to one of the machine's alternative names, the galloper. Other popular names are merry-go-round, roundabout and flying horses.

Although modern carousels (especially in America) are mainly populated with horses, carousels from earlier periods frequently included diverse varieties of animals, including dogs, cats, rabbits, pigs, and deer, to name a few.

Any rotating platform may also be called a carousel. In a playground, a merry-go-round is usually a simple, child-powered rotating platform with bars or handles to which children can cling while riding. At an airport, rotating conveyors in the baggage claim area are often called carousels.

Answer 5

A Carousel rotates Counter Clock-wise and a
Merry-go-round rotates Clockwise.

Answer 6

Carousels, are electrically powered and, Merry Go Rounds, are Human powered.o

Answer 7

They are the same thing, except in Britain they are called Merry Go Rounds and in the U.S. they are called Carousels.

Answer 8

I think a merry go round has the animals that go up and down

Answer 9

merry go rounds are at parks and playgrounds you push it and it spins a carousel is a ride that has horses and benches and is electric or gas operated

Answer 10

carousel is older and only has horses on it

Answer 11

They are one in the same!