Meaning & use
an amusement park
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Meaning
nouncountable
A large outdoor area with rides, games, and shows where people go for fun.
Grammar: Countable: you can say 'an amusement park' or 'amusement parks'. Use 'a' before a consonant sound.
Patterns
- go to an amusement park
- at an amusement park
The children begged their parents to take them to an amusement park.
We spent the whole day at an amusement park, riding roller coasters and eating cotton candy.
An amusement park opened near the highway last summer.
Word forms
| plural | amusement parks |
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Common combinations
- go to an amusement park
- Let's go to an amusement park this weekend.
- amusement park ride
- The Ferris wheel is my favorite amusement park ride.
- amusement park ticket
- Amusement park tickets are cheaper if you buy them online.
- visit an amusement park
- We visited an amusement park in Florida.
Synonyms and how they differ
- theme park
- A theme park is similar but usually has a central theme or story, like Disneyland; an amusement park is a more general term for any park with rides.
- funfair
- In British English, a funfair is a smaller, often traveling fair with rides and games; an amusement park is a permanent, larger place.
Word family
Commonly confused: an amusement park or amusement arcade?
an amusement park vs amusement arcade
An amusement arcade is an indoor place with coin-operated games, not outdoor rides.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'an amusement park' correctly?
Choose one answer.
Use 'an' before a vowel sound: 'an amusement park'. Option 0 uses 'a' incorrectly; option 2 misses the article; option 3 is correct if you mean a specific park, but the question asks for the indefinite form.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “an amusement park”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.