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Queue areas are places in which people queue ( first-come, first-served) for goods or services. Such a group of people is known as a queue ( British usage) or line ( American usage), and the people are said to be waiting or standing in a queue or in line, respectively. (In the New York City area, the phrase on line is often used in place of in ...
Escalator etiquette. Standing on the left in Japan, where conventions vary between cities. [ 1] Escalator etiquette is the etiquette of using escalators. In many places, there is a convention that people should stand on a particular side to allow other people to walk on the other side. [ 2] Standing on the right is the most common convention ...
Cutting in line. A queue on an open sidewalk in Poland. Cutting in line (also known as line/queue jumping, butting, barging, budging, bunking, skipping, breaking, ditching, shorting, pushing in, or cutsies [1]) is the act of entering a queue or line at any position other than the end. The act is frowned upon in most human cultures and stands in ...
Cliffhanger. The Cliff Hanger is an amusement park rider that is meant to simulate hang gliding. 1984. Condor. The Condor is the trade name of an amusement ride sold by HUSS of Bremen, Germany. It was debuted at the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair, under the name "Cyclo Tower". 2003.
Flowriding, also known as flowboarding, is a late-20th century alternative boardsport incorporating elements of surfing, bodyboarding, skateboarding, skimboarding, snowboarding and wakeboarding. Flowriding takes place on an artificial wave machine, called the FlowRider or the FlowBarrel, created by Wave Loch .
It is the act of sitting or standing in long lines for people who don't have the time or simply don't want to. The idea came to Samuel when found himself unemployed in 2012 around the same time ...
Line stander. People in line at the Sydney Australia Apple Store for the launch of the iPad 2. A line stander, queue stander, line sitter or queue professional is a person who takes a position in a queue in place of another, often for payment. This informal occupation came to an existence out of the necessity to stand long times in queues.
A high-occupancy vehicle lane on Interstate 5 in Seattle. A high-occupancy vehicle lane (also known as an HOV lane, carpool lane, diamond lane, 2+ lane, and transit lane or T2 or T3 lanes) is a restricted traffic lane reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles with a driver and at least one passenger, including carpools, vanpools, and transit buses.