Meaning of white-knuckle ride | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An extremely exciting and nerve-racking ride at an amusement park, etc., where one's hands grip on so tightly that the knuckles appear white.
2. A car ride or bike ride that is similarly nerve-racking, provoking fear of a crash.
3. Any extremely exciting or nerve-racking experience.
   figuratively

Examples

“A newly-devised ‘white-knuckle’ ride in a funfair was named ‘the Braveheart ride’.”

“They must be insane to think Judy Finnegan would retire from the daily white-knuckle ride that is live television with Richard Madeley.”

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