DISCLAIMER: Currently the list is grouped geographically. Several languages simply use the English “roller coaster,” and have thus been left off of the list. The information below is meant to be a reference but should not yet be trusted as a dictionary. Please understand this glossary is a continual work in progress. The goal is to make it 100% accurate. If you have any languages, corrections, or insight to add please comment below or e-mail Crave Cravak at scravak@hotmail.com.
ROLLER COASTER GLOBAL DICTIONARY
North America:
English: roller coaster, coaster
Haitian Creole: coaster roulo
Hawaiian: kaʻa lola (rolling roller)
South America:
Spanish: montaña rusa
Portuguese: montanha russa
Europe:
English (UK): roller coaster, big dippers
Latin: Coaster cylindro
Irish: Cóstóir Roithleáin / coaster sorcóir
Spanish: montaña rusa
Galician: montaña rusa
Portuguese: montanha russa
French: montagne russe
Italian: montagne russe / otto volante (flying eight)
Hungarian: hullámvasút (wave + railway)
German: achterbahn
Dutch: achtbaan (going in eights) / roetsjbaan
Danish: rutchebane
Turkish: hiz treni (speed train)
Polish: kolejka górska
Danish: rutschebane
Swedish: berg-och-dalbana (mountain and valley track)
Norewegian: berg-og-dalbane (mountain and valley track)
Persian: coaster غلتکی
Arabic: أفعوانية
Hebrew: רכבת הרים (rakevet harim) – mountain train / רכבת שדים (rakevet shedim) – demon train
Yiddish: וואַל קאָוסטער
Armenian: լիսեռ coaster
Serbian: брдска железница
Finnish/Suomi: vuoristorata (mountain track)
Catalan: Muntanya russa
Czech: horská dráha (mountain track/railroad) / housenková dráha (caterpillar track)
Slovak: húsenková dráha (caterpillar track)
Croatian: vlak smrti (train of death) / brdska željeznica
Romanian: montagne russe (french loan word)
Albanian: slitë rul
Latvian: coaster cylindro
Lithuanian: coaster cylindro
Ukrainian: гірках
Macedonian: ролеркостер
Estonian: ameerika mäed (American mountains)
Bulgaria: влакче в увеселителен парк
Greek: το τρενάκι του λούνα παρκ//to trenáki tou lúna park (little train of the amusement park) / Καταδυόμενο τρενάκι (kataðiomeno trenaci, n.), lit. “plunging little train
Esperanto: onda fervojo (wavy railroad)
Belarusian: горках
Russian: amerikanskiye gorki (American hills)
Asia:
Azerbaijani: roller sahil gəmisi
Hindi: रोलर कोस्टर
Urdu: رولر coaster
Thai: รถไฟเหาะ
Mandarin (Chinese): 过山车 (guo shan che) / 雲宵飛車 (yun2 xiao1 fei1 che1): literally cloud night flying car
Taiwanese: 雲宵飛車
Japanese: ジェットコースター (Jet Coaster) / 絶叫マシーン (zekkyou machine) – It’s used for any thrill ride, but also for coasters
Korean: 롤러 코스터 (rorra kosuteo / roller coaster)
Filipino: pison naninirahan malapit sa baybayin
Tagalog: rodilyo
Special thanks to global friends, fellow coasterers, google translate, wikipedia and ‘wordreference.com’s’ message board.
Last updated: 06/06/2011
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