A rotating amusement ride having a vertical hollow column carrying a plurality of arms pivoted at one end to the top portion of the column with passenger cars secured to the ends of the arms. Power means rotates the column and swings the passenger cars about a vertical axis and maintains the cars a short distance away from the column. An inner shaft which rotates with the column is provided with a disc on which a plurality of pivoted posts are mounted with a linkage and struts connecting the pivoted posts with each of the arms and a brake mounted on the inner shaft to momentarily retard the rotation of the shaft and the disc to actuate the linkages and cause the upward swinging movement of the arms and cars as they rotate about the column.
A play facility (1) includes a rotation shaft (25) erected on a floor inside the play facility, the rotation shaft being rotatable (25) around its axis; a brush-like decorative object (33) attached to a circumferential periphery of the rotation shaft (25); and a driving means for rotating the rotation shaft (25) around its axis. A play participant can play while holding on to the rotation shaft (25) to which the decorative object (33) is attached.
