Synonyms for merry-go-round
merry-go-round

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. merry-go-roundnoun

   Synonyms:
   carousel

2. merry-go-roundnoun

   carousel; a pleasure ride consisting of a slowly revolving circular platform affixed with various types of seats, frequently horses or other animals, typically found at fairs and amusement parks

   Synonyms:
   carousel

3. merry-go-roundnoun

   a piece of playground equipment in the style of a merry-go-round

   Synonyms:
   carousel

4. merry-go-roundnoun

   A dead-end search; a bustle of activity that gets nowhere

   Synonyms:
   carousel

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. merry-go-roundnoun

   a never-ending cycle of activities and events (especially when they seem to have little purpose)

   "if we lose the election the whole legislative merry-go-round will have to start over"

   Synonyms:
   roundabout, carousel, whirligig, carrousel

2. carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligignoun

   a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement

   Synonyms:
   top, whirligig, luggage carrousel, carousel, spinning top, circle, carrousel, roundabout, rotary, luggage carousel, traffic circle, teetotum

Matched Categories

1. • Cycle
   • Ride

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "merry-go-round":

   carousel, armoury, ride

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How to use merry-go-round in a sentence?

1. Jeremy Goldwyn:

   There probably hasn't been this amount of change on the jobs front in the past five years, some of it is expansion, and some of it is a classic merry-go-round — when two or three people move they have to be replaced.

2. Alishia May:

   Life, like a merry-go-round, may make you dizzy but you have to hold on even in the hardest of times

3. Scott C. Holstad:

   Moods invent the man. I am a creation of turbulence, a rider of an ongoing merry-go-round.

4. Alan Gottlieb:

   Defense Distributed appears caught in what appears to be a bureaucratic game of merry-go-round, the right to keep and bear arms includes the ability to acquire or create arms. The government is engaging in behavior that denies this company’s due process under the Fifth Amendment. We’re compelled to file this action because the bureaucracy is evidently playing games and it’s time for these agencies to behave.

5. Dejan Stojanovic:

   Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones.