'fairground' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a collection of rides and games, usually contained within a large open space, and typically found at carnivals or festivals. An example sentence might be: "The fairground was bustling with activity as people flocked to play the many games offered."
Echoing the infamous 1962-3 fairground series taken by the Beatles Hamburgg contemporary and friend Jürgen Vollmer, McCullin's 1965 photographs, which are shown on the magazine spread above, capture the fairground's atmosphere of wild carnival.
Let's run through a typical example, level-by-level … On the ground floor: endless rows of what the Japanese call "UFO grabbers" – those familiar fairground games in which you make a doomed attempt to grab an underwhelming prize using a mechanised claw.
I called my version of Von Horvath's play The Funfair and relocated it from the Munich Oktoberfest to a Platt Fields or Heaton Park travelling fairground.
While bands and musicians were usually photographed live or during interviews, Davies preferred to pose his subjects against carefully chosen backgrounds or in unusual spots – such as capturing Chrissie Hynde as she rode a fairground carousel.
It's not a fairground duck shoot where you go pop-pop-pop Phil Gunning While many local people in Bowland celebrated its status as a stronghold for the hen harrier, the RSPB has struggled to win over significant parts of the community.
He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Food and Drink For a long time, the travelling fairground was central to British popular culture.
As with the giant slides this celebrated trickster installed in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall nine years ago, his shows can be as much fairground as exhibition.
Tomorrow, if it passes without serious mishap, will represent the end of official mourning and the discordant hurdy-gurdy of the fairground can be turned up again to full volume and the old merry tunes on the cash register.
"It's not a fairground duck shoot where you go pop-pop-pop, it's a supreme test of skill.
A third features children swinging around a watchtower as though it were a fairground ride.
This year's was the 145th Illinois State Fair, now held on the 366-acre fairground in the state capital of Springfield.
