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Meanings of bumper car in English

Russian
бамперные машинки
Portuguese
carrinho de batida
Spanish
carros chocones
Catalan
autos de xoc
Wikidata

Fairground game/ride.

бамперные машинки
Catalan
autos de xoc

A small electric car designed to bump into other similar cars, often displayed at a funfair.

autos de xoc
Synonyms
Examples for "dodgem car"
Examples for "dodgem car"
1
Alan winked back, and they wandered on, past rifle-ranges, hooplas and dodgem cars.
Eight Days of Luke
2
Now I know where fairground dodgem cars were invented.
The Guardian
3
The dodgem cars came first, smashing through the reinforced sides of their stand and heading straight for us at impossible speed.
The unnatural inquirer
4
The subsequent films may, at least, explain why the current picture begins with a sequence depicting mentally challenged adults driving dodgem cars.
The Irish Times
5
The rest of the dodgem cars were already upon us, so Suzie and I threw ourselves in opposite directions, out of their way.
The unnatural inquirer
1
On their left was the Demon Dodgem Cars building, now boarded and shuttered.
The talisman
2
I had an 18-month break from writing it while I was producing Dodgem Logic.
The Guardian
3
Why is Dodgem Logic on hold?
The Guardian
4
AM: In the second issue of Dodgem Logic (the Northampton-based magazine Moore was publishing), we had a wonderful photo feature upon some burlesque ladies.
The Guardian
5
Alan winked back, and they wandered on, past rifle-ranges, hooplas and dodgem cars.
Eight Days of Luke
Usage of bumper car in English
1
It was about as complicated to make move as a bumper car.
Turn coat
2
Few strikers use their body so well, a bumper car relishing the bumps.
The Guardian
3
Check out these two pictures from the bumper car ride at the fair.
Wired
4
But a summer retreat in Dingle or Donegal summoned up visions of bumper -to- bumper car journeys.
The Irish Times
5
Geneva Motor Show Caption Contest is... Man, I always get the bumper car that won't move.
Wired
6
Other captivating photos show an abandoned supermarket with a shopping trolley outside and a rusting bumper car.
News.com.au
7
That flipped the purring switch and he continued to bang against my legs like a bumper car.
Making rounds with oscar: the extraordinary gift of an ordinary ...
8
There were a couple of Roomba gags, the obligatory bumper car jokes and even a Star Trek reference.
Wired
9
I see a woman's head doing a swivel, like behind the bank she's riding in a bumper car in a parking space.
The apocalypse reader
10
Eventually, like a bumper car pushed into a corner, I found myself before a blond man in a T-shirt, guarding a door.
The Guardian
11
I'd gotten into so many fender benders myself that my father once asked if I'd mistaken the highway for a bumper car arena.
The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
12
Like a carnival bumper car, the truck spun out, careening toward the rail again, slinging him close enough to see its rotted-out posts.
Table for five
13
I could barely ride bumper cars without yarfing all over the place.
The accidental demon slayer
14
Trust the Japanese to turn bumper cars into a team sport.
Wired
15
Well, Laurel and I were going to hit the bumper cars next, actually.
The First Lie
16
The van shook as Julie played bumper cars with the eighteen-wheeler.
Monster Hunter International