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  2. Reining - Wikipedia

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    Reining is a western riding competition for horses where the riders guide the horses through a precise pattern of circles, spins, and stops. All work is done at the lope (a version of the horse gait more commonly known worldwide as the canter), or the gallop (the fastest of the horse gaits).

  3. Hot Wheels: World Race - Wikipedia

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    Will the drivers succeed at returning the Wheel of Power to its rightful spot in Hot Wheels City, or will they let it fall into the hands of Gelorum and her evil robots? The racers are split into 5 teams, led by Banjee Castillo (Roadbeasts), Brian Kadeem (Dune Ratz), Taro Kitano (Scorchers), Kurt Wylde (Street Breed), and Vert Wheeler (Wave ...

  4. Ferris Wheel (1893) - Wikipedia

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    The original Ferris Wheel, sometimes also referred to as the Chicago Wheel, [2] [3] was designed and built by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. as the centerpiece of the Midway at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Since its construction, many other Ferris wheels have been constructed that were patterned after it.

  5. Barlow's wheel - Wikipedia

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    The Lorentz force of the magnetic field on the moving charges in the wheel causes the wheel to rotate. The presence of serrations on the wheel is unnecessary and the apparatus will work with a round metal disk, usually made of copper. [2] "The points of the wheel, R, dip into mercury contained in a groove hollowed in the stand.

  6. Wheel and axle - Wikipedia

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    The windlass is a well-known application of the wheel and axle.. The wheel and axle is a simple machine consisting of a wheel attached to a smaller axle so that these two parts rotate together in which a force is transferred from one to the other.

  7. Reaction wheel - Wikipedia

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    Reaction wheels are used to control the attitude of a satellite without the use of thrusters, which reduces the mass fraction needed for fuel.. They work by equipping the spacecraft with an electric motor attached to a flywheel, which, when its rotation speed is changed, causes the spacecraft to begin to counter-rotate proportionately through conservation of angular momentum. [2]

  8. Cyr wheel - Wikipedia

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    Urbanatix performer in Nordsternpark at Ruhr's 2011 ExtraSchicht festival Street performer during Sirkusmarkkinat at Kerava in 2013 (Circus Festival). The Cyr wheel (also known as the roue Cyr, mono wheel, [1] or simple wheel) is an acrobatic apparatus that consists of a single large ring made of aluminum or steel with a diameter approximately 10 to 15 cm (4 to 6 in) taller than the performer.

  9. Wheel - Wikipedia

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    An early wheel made of a solid piece of wood. A wheel is a rotating component (typically circular in shape) that is intended to turn on an axle bearing. The wheel is one of the key components of the wheel and axle which is one of the six simple machines. Wheels, in conjunction with axles, allow heavy objects to be moved easily facilitating ...