rollercoastingn.
/ˈrəʊləkəʊstɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈroʊlərˌkoʊstɪŋ/ 1. The action of riding a rollercoaster. Also figurative and in extended use.
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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fairground ride > roller coaster or railway > riding on
rollercoasting1883
rollercoastering1913
1883 Chicago Tribune 30 Sept. 16/5 (headline) Roller Coasting. A new South Side amusement.
1887 Contemp. Rev. May 733 Here are boating, fishing,..roller-coasting..for boys.
1920 Rotarian Sept. 154 Ball games, races, swimming, eats and roller-coasting were the main sports.
1960 R. W. Marks Dymaxion World Buckminster Fuller 27/2 Ducks, however, are anatomically unfitted for such aerial roller coasting.
1988 A. Scadron On their Own 121 Emmeline Wells, a prominent Mormon woman, remembered at her husband's death the emotional roller coasting of marriage with a shared husband.
2002 B. Gaut in A. Neill & A. Ridley Arguing about Art (ed. 2) xviii. 299 What he enjoys about roller-coasting is not the queasiness, but the ‘novel way of moving through space’ and the ‘overall thrill’ of the ride.
2. Surfing. The action of performing a rollercoaster (rollercoaster n. 3). rare.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > types of
body surfing1908
hot-dogging1929
kamikaze1963
rollercoasting1968
boogie boarding1978
longboarding1982
kiteboarding1996
1968 W. Warwick Surfriding in N.Z. p. iv Roller coasting, one way of dropping and climbing on a wave.
2008 L. Southerden Surf's Up ix. 181 That's why doing S-turns is also called ‘rollercoasting’—you're riding up and down the wave face like a gentle rollercoaster.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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