The phrase "amusement device" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to any equipment or apparatus designed for entertainment purposes, such as arcade games or rides at amusement parks.
Example: "The new amusement device at the fair has become a popular attraction among visitors of all ages."
Alternatives: "entertainment equipment" or "recreational apparatus".
Rivals for the honor include a 1948 amusement device, but it required pictures placed over the screen in contrast to Dr. Higinbotham's self-contained system.
He showed off some of his other collectibles, including a creaky fortune-teller machine, an early motion-picture device called a Mutoscope, and a 100-year-old claw-digger amusement device.
The Electronic and Mechanical Components segment produces and merchandises relays, switches, components, and units for amusement devices, connectors, and combination jogs.
That process has been expanded to include an external review by Pitt & Sherry, a mechanical engineering firm that specialises in amusement rides and devices.
But it turns out researchers there aren't using the device for amusement or to belabor the well-known dangers of smoking; they're using it to test new treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which is commonly caused by smoking and is the third leading cause of death in the United States.
These devices are developed for amusement activities.
While the women are off farming, cooking, building, or weaving, the children are left mostly to their own devices, creating toys and amusement from items around the house.
Biometric systems are now deployed in dozens of countries for a host of purposes from national identification to access, to amusement parks, to automatic log in for computing devices.
The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a ruling in 1942 upholding a Teaneck ordinance that had banned pinball machines on the grounds that they were gambling devices rather than a form of amusement.
His addiction to the device--often nicknamed a CrackBerry--was a subject of amusement and some consternation for aides in the run up to his inauguration in 2008.
Until this moment, I had, like many others, continued to puzzle over why, if the Greeks were capable of building such a technically sophisticated device, they used that capacity to construct what is essentially a toy — an intellectual amusement.
