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Gondola meaning
A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice. | A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo. | An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.
Synonyms of Gondola
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At Sunshine Village, they won’t be reducing gondola capacity at peak times but will always keep the windows of their gondola open.
More often the term small waterplane area hull means a hull with an underwater gondola and strut(s) that connect the gondola to the above-water platform.
A crowd of over 100 people showed up to show their support for the Jewish community as well as those being held captive in the Gaza Strip during Thursday’s Aspen Stands with Israel solidarity event in Gondola Plaza.
As part of the merger, LVMH intends to transform the gondola into private experience eating cabins and close the mountain to skiers and snowboarders all the time.
For $50, riders get a 20-minute “VIP experience” sitting in a gondola with hardwood floors and leather-backed seats.
Hopping back on Whistler Gondola, this time we rode all the way to the high alpine (picnic box in tow).
I started with the outdoors: “Be sure to take a ride up the gondola to the top of the mountain, and if you can get someone to take you to the Maroon Bells or the Pine Creek Cookhouse, be sure to make the trip.
It has carved a reputation as Bulgaria’s top ski resort, with the addition of a gondola system in the early 2000s leading to the opening up of what is now a network of 14 lifts and around 75km of pistes.
Plans for the construction of a monorail or a gondola on the strip, to move tourists and workers alike, have never materialized.
She said the gondola towers, as tall as 13 stories, would be a blight on the landscape.
The gondola provides a year-round alternative that would move people already headed to the resorts safely and with the least environmental impact, while removing thousands of cars off the road and making travel easier for those not headed to a resort.
The gondola’s critics say its primary beneficiaries are corporations and politicians.
We fear that, even if the gondola falls out of favor or proves to be ineffective, the poles would not be removed.
When they get to the gondola that leads to the castle, Sebastián stays behind to hold off the priest and his seers.
Would readers take a gondola to Dodger Stadium from Union Station?
An artist rendering of what a gondola would look like en route to Dodger Stadium from Los Angeles Union Station.
But five minutes into the journey, close to the top, the lifts were deactivated because the wind tolerances of 70kmh (43mph) had been exceeded - leaving the pair, and another rider in the gondola behind, literally twisting in the wind.
Eight skydivers had successfully jumped from the gondola before the balloon began experiencing problems.
In 2013, a German tourist was crushed to death when the gondola he was in was involved in a collision with a water bus on the Grand Canal.
It took us a lot of time to decide on which gondola to choose because I wanted the perfect setting.