Bumper cars or dodgems are the generic names for a type of flat amusement ride consisting of multiple small electrically powered cars which draw power from the floor or ceiling, and which are turned on …

Invented by a pair of brothers in Massachusetts, the earliest Dodgem vehicles were round in shape with a small seat and a steering wheel at the end of a long column sticking up from the front of the …

The meaning of DODGEM is bumper car —called also dodgem car.

(also dodgem car) a small electric car driven for entertainment in a special closed space at a fair, etc., where the aim is to try to hit other cars:

A dodgem or dodgem car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all around. People drive dodgems around a special enclosure at an amusement park.

A dodgem is a small electric car, typically used in a fairground ride, designed to be bumped into others as a form of entertainment. These cars move around a specially designed track and participants aim …

Dodgem was created in 1972 by Colin Vout in his book Challenging Puzzles. Vout was a mathematics student at the University of Cambridge. The original game was devised with two red cars and two …

Bumper cars are sometimes known as dodgem cars because that’s what the original inventors, brothers Max, and Harold Stoehrer of Massachusetts, called them. After two years of development, the …

Dodgem definition: an attraction at amusement parks, carnivals, or the like, consisting of small electrically powered automobiles that the patrons drive, trying to bump other cars while avoiding …

Dodgem was actually the name of their company and it is still used nowadays to refer to the car itself. The Stoehrers developed an electrical system with a metal bar that connected the car to the ceiling, …