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🎠 U+1F3A0, 🎠 CAROUSEL HORSE ← 🎟 [U+1F39F] Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🎡 → [U+1F3A1]

Translingual

Description

The painted horse of a carousel, facing left.

Symbol

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1. (cartography) Indicates an amusement park.
   • 2006, Murray Knowles, Rosamund Moon, Introducing Metaphor‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN, page 146:

     Many other road signs also represent metonyms. For example, on brown tourist information signs, a carousel represents a theme or amusement park

   • 2015, “Selected Tourist and Leisure Information”, in OS Explorer / 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster‎^[2], Ordnance Survey, page 2:

     🎠 Theme/pleasure park

Usage notes

The use of a carousel to represent an amusement park is because of its recognisability and uniqueness to the parks. Carnivals, which often employ carousels, are temporary and as such do not need to be indicated on a map.

Synonyms

• 🎡 (“a Ferris wheel”)
• 🎢 (“a rollercoaster”)

Further reading

• “🎠 Carousel Horse”, in Emojipedia, 2013–present.

Presentations of 🎠︎

Text style	Emoji style
🎠︎	🎠️
Note: Character's appearance may be different on each system. Text style is forced with ︎ and emoji style with ️