Glossary of Inflatables Terms

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Inflatable 5k – Inflatable obstacle course equipment for 5k run, a such set often contains 10 – 12 units.

A

Air tight – It means the inflated products once been filled with air, they would be closed, and do not have to be continuously pumping up.

Air dancer – An advertising inflatable merchandise continuously blown up by a blower and move in the air.

Amusement park – A large outdoor fairground which has diverse recreational facilities (include inflatable toys) for adults and kids.

Air tumble track – A long mat for gym.

Axe throwing inflatable – An axe throwing inflatable game with sticky inflatable axes.

B

Bounce house – A trampoline padded with air and enclosed with inflatable walls.

Bouncer – The short name of bounce house.

Bouncy castle – A bounce house, an air blown toy for kids to jump.

Blower – A mechanical device used for blowing air to inflatables.

Blow ups – Used to refer holiday inflatables such as Christmas inflatables that decorate one’s house and yard.

Bumper ball – A transparent ball to wear on and cover the upper body part, used for playing bubble soccer.

Bossaball – A sport game combined with volleyball, football and gymnastics that played on a large inflatable volleyball court with trampolines.

Banana boat – Towable inflatable boat for people to sit on and ride on water.

Bish bash area – A fun obstacle section in inflatable obstacle course, fulled of pop ups.

Bungee run – A game that players should fight against spring cords to see how far they can go.

Blob – Inflatable water blob, it’s a giant pillow floating on water. A player jump on one side and make another player on the other side flipped into sky and then fall into water. It’s like a catapult.

Batting cage – Inflatable catting cage is easy to set up and carry for baseball players, amateurs and players to practice and have fun with pitching baseballs.

Bubble tent – An air tent in a dome shape that is fully or partly transparent, mostly used for camping and leisure.

Base jump inflatable – An inflatable jump game, player jump down from the height and fall onto an air blown bed.

C

Carnival games – Small and amusing games played in carnival booths. Include inflatable games.

Commercial – Commercial inflatable products are more durable and superior than residential inflatables, should use heavy duty materials like PVC.

Crash mat – An air-filled mat right at the entrance of bouncy castle for the purpose of cushion and protection.

Combo – Short for combination, in inflatable industry, those are the products normally combine bouncer and slide together.

Catapult – Human catapult, the same as inflatable water blob.

D

Dome tent inflatable – An inflatable tent with a dome structure.

Disco dome – An inflatable dome house with disco lights inside.

Deflate – Antonym to inflatable, the process or verb of blowing off air from inflatables.

Demolition – Human demolition wrecking ball game.

E

EN14960 – The authoritative safety standards for manufacturing inflatables in Europe.

F

FEC (inflatable) – FEC means family entertainment center (for family fun activities and kids parties). An inflatable indoor family entertainment center means most of the attractions of the indoor fun facility are inflatables, generally those equipment are bounce houses, slides and inflatable games, ball pit, etc. Inflatable FEC also have other names, such as inflatable theme park, inflatable amusement park, inflatable indoor playground, etc.

Flying fish – A towable inflatable boat that could fly into sky with riders on it.

Fun city – A large inflatable playground with several fun and playful features, like slides, bouncers and obstacles.

Floating slide – An inflatable slide can be floated on water, often as a part of an inflatable water park.

Foot dart – A dart game by shooting velcro soccer balls to the sticky inflatable dart board.

Free jump – Jump from higher inflatable platform down to lower air bag.

G

Gladiator joust – A game that two players wearing helmets fight against each other with inflatable weapons, try to knock opponent off their padded pedestal.

H

Hose – Hoses are the source of water for inflatable water slides and pools.

Human hamster ball – Also called zorb ball.

Human bowling – zorb bowling, human in zorb ball and knock down the inflatable bowling pins.

I

Inflatable – The process of filling air.

Inflatables – Inflatable products.

IAAPA – The international association of amusement parks and attractions.

Inflatable castle – The same as bounce house, but comes with castle structure.

Inlet – The tube where the air is coming in in by a blower.

Inflatable obstacle course – A challenged inflatable playing field generally allowed two competitors to race and conquer the obstacles in their way.

Inflatable slide – A slide that riders slide down on inflatable structure.

Inflatable water slide – A wet inflatable slide, water flows on the surface of slide through hose.

Interactive games – Interactive games in inflatable contains wrecking balls, bungee runs, gladiator joust and so on.

Inflatable water park – a large floating inflatable amusement park on water, contains features like floating slide, water obstacle course, water trampolines etc.

Inflatable iceberg – An inflatable climbing mountain floating on water.

Inflatable church – An portable inflatable building for wedding.

Inflatable pub – Blow up pub.

Inflatable igloo tent – The same as inflatable dome tent.

IPS – Interactive play system, it can incorporate with inflatables to create action game.

J

Joust game – See the gladiator joust.

Jumper – Inflatable jumper, another name of bouncer.

Jumping house – The same name with jumper, and you can call it jumping castle too.

K

Inflatable kayak – An air-inflated narrow boat drove by paddles, portable than traditional kayak.

Knocker ball – Another name of bubble ball.

L

Laser tag arena – Inflatable laser tag arena / maze is a large enclosed inflatable arena for laser tag.

LED lighting inflatables – Inflatables as decorations that have internal LED lighting.

M

Moonwalk – Another name of bounce house.

Moon bounce – The other name of bounce house.

Mesh netting – The nets that enclose the the bounce house to keep kids falling outside and also possible for supervisors to watch.

Mechanical games – Inflatable games that driven and controlled by machines, like electrical bull and inflatable wipeout.

Meltdown – A name for the game of wipeout sweeper in the theme of nuclear zone.

Mechanical bull – Simulation of bull riding, inflatable bull is powered by motor, moved in various speeds and directions, floored with padded or inflatable flooring.

Modular – An inflatable is modular means it can be customized with art panels.

Money booth – Inflatable money / cash booth / machine for catching blowing up paper moneys.

N

Nerf – Nerf war game in inflatable battle field and bunkers.

Nylon – The material used to create residential inflatables.

Ninja wall – An obstacle climbing wall with a curved surface, run to climb up to the top.

O

Outlet – The tube that let air to leak.

Operator – Only a licensed operator could operate an inflatable toy.

Obstacles – The inflatable playful features on inflatable obstacle course.

P

PVC – The material used to create commercial inflatables, more quality than vinyl, the PVC here refers to soft PVC.

Pop ups – Those are short inflatable cylinders, can be horizontal, vertical or slanting, as obstacles in inflatable obstacle courses and bouncers.

Q

R

Residential – Residential inflatables are less quality than commercial inflatables. For home use.

Rental company – Local rental businesses of inflatable products, in charge of delivery, operation and deflating of inflatables to families and events.

RIB – Abbreviation for rigid inflatable boats, those boats have solid shaped hull, averagely propelled by outboard motors.

Rodeo – Rodeo bull, or mechanical bull ride, a imitation of real bull riding, played on a bouncy flooring.

Repair – Tarpaulin get ripped and torn all the time. Need glue, patch and other repair kit to remedy.

S

Stake – Pegs for fixating inflatables on ground like bouncy castles.

Sandbag – Add weight to bouncers in case of ground stakes don’t work, especially used when on street(asphalt road) and indoor.

Sumo suit inflatable – Sumo suits filled with air for wrestling.

Sky dancer – The same with air dancer.

Soap soccer – Also named soap football, a sport game played on inflatable football court with soaps.

Surf simulator – An inflatable mechanical game that simulates the surfing.

Skee ball – Throw balls to score, similar to pool table.

T

TPU – A better material than PVC.

Trampoline – A bounce device for jumping higher.

Tube man – Inflatable tube man, the nickname of air dancer.

Tunnel – Inflatable entrance and run through for football players in North America, often made as football team’s mascot.

U

Unicorn bounce house – Unicorn themed bounce house for kids, this is one popular kind of all bounce houses.

V

Vinyl – Normally it is the short name for PVC.

Velcro wall – A sticking wall via Velcro fabric hook.

W

Whack a mole inflatable – Human whack a mole inflatable, an inflatable game for adults and kids playing life size whack a mole game with air blown hammer.

Water walking ball – It’s zorbing ball, but on water, thinner than zorb ball.

Water roller – It’s like water walking ball, but in cylinder shape.

Water cylinder – The same with water roller.

water shoes – Inflatable water shoes give wearers the ability to walk on water.

Water totter – Inflatable seesaw on water, afloat.

Wet / dry – It means this unit has a slide that can be used as water slide and dry slide.

Wrecking ball – A game played by a group of people, players stand on their own pedestal, use the wrecking ball in the middle to know off others.

Wipeout – Wipeout game, include various games like wipeout eliminator, wrecking ball and big ball.

Whack a wall – An air structure, like a wall, filled with soft batons. The aim of this game is to push the batons to other side against opponents.

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Z

Zorb ball – Also called human size hamster ball, people can actually be inside, walk and roll.

Zip line inflatable – Zip line on inflatable bouncy flooring, more safe than real life zip lines.