Every flume, funnel and free-fall on Earth, explained and animated.
The world's most complete guide to water slides: every slide type with a playable animation, record-breakers, iconic rides, every major water park on a map, manufacturers, engineering, safety and daily news.Welcome! Tap any picture to open its page, press ▶ to watch the slide work, and tick off the slides you've ridden.
Current Guinness holders and challengers. Height is the slide's vertical drop, not the tower.The tallest, longest and fastest slides in the whole world.
Vertigo & The Fractionator
Two slides that start 76 metres up a giant tower, higher than 20 giraffes standing on each other's heads!Body slides from the 85 m Icon Tower, which has six launch levels.
Kilimanjaro
Almost 50 metres tall and steeper than a playground slide turned nearly on its end.A 49.
Verrückt
A raft slide as tall as a 17-storey building.A three-rider raft slide with a 168 ft 7 in (51.
Insano
41 metres tall.A 41 m free-fall body slide at about 70°, reaching roughly 105 km/h in a four-to-five-second ride.
The Fall (Rise of Icarus)
A 44-metre slide in Wisconsin Dells, the "water park capital of the world".A WhiteWater high-speed AquaTube: 145 ft slide from a 160 ft tower, 780 ft long, about 30 mph.
Thrillagascar & Jungle Jammer
Trapdoor slides 43 metres tall, all INSIDE a building in New Jersey.ProSlide SkyBOX trapdoor launches into 142 ft (43.
Dragonfly Tower (Emerald Blur & Golden Wing Spiral)
A brand-new 50-metre tower with 14 slides, opened in May 2026.WhiteWater AquaTube body slides from the roughly 50-52 m Dragonfly Tower, opened 1 May 2026 as part of the 14-slide Waterfly expansion.
Daredevil's Peak
A 41-metre slide on a private island for cruise ships.A 135 ft (41 m) enclosed speed slide on Royal Caribbean's private island, the tallest in North America when it opened in 2019.
Each type has a playable Ride Simulator showing how it works, from body slides to hydromagnetic coasters.Press play on any slide and watch a rider go down it!
Body slide
The simplest slide of all.The rider slides directly on the flume surface with nothing under them.
Speed slide
A really tall, really steep body slide.A steep, near-straight body slide, typically a 60-80° drop into a long flat run-out that stops the rider without a deep pool.
Kamikaze
An old-fashioned name for a fast, straight body slide with big dips.Generic name, from George Millay's 1979 Wet 'n Wild Orlando ride, for a fast body slide with one or more steep dips.
Trapdoor slide
You stand inside a glass box.The rider slides directly on the flume surface with nothing under them.
Looping slide (AquaLoop)
The only slide that goes upside down!A trapdoor launch into a ~17 m drop and then an inclined loop, tilted about 45° so gravity helps the rider through.
Tube slide
You sit in a big rubber ring and twist and turn down a curvy flume.One or two riders sit in an inflatable ring and follow an open or enclosed serpentine flume.
Constrictor
A tube slide wound up tight like a snake, with very sharp, steep turns that throw you high up the walls.A coiled tube slide with tight-radius, high-banked turns; sold open, enclosed or "sawtooth" (alternating).
Dark slide
A closed tunnel that is totally dark inside, so you never know which way the next turn goes!A fully closed flume, often black or opaque, so riders cannot see the route.
Mat racer
Up to eight friends race side by side, lying head-first on foam mats, bumping over little hills.Four to eight parallel lanes; riders lie head-first on foam mats and race over dips.
Racing tube slides
Two slides that look exactly the same, side by side.Two mirror-image flumes for side-by-side racing.
What to watch in the next TEA/AECOM water park attendance report
The 2024 index put Chimelong first with 2.The 2024 index put Chimelong first with 2.
Great Tides opens on Great Stirrup Cay with a 170-foot slide tower
Norwegian Cruise Line's new island water park opened on 4 September 2026 with 19 slides, the Caribbean's tallest slide tower and dueling Master Blasters.Norwegian Cruise Line's new island water park opened on 4 September 2026 with 19 slides, the Caribbean's tallest slide tower and dueling Master Blasters.
Water World Colorado opens Summit Canyon, its biggest expansion since the 1980s
The publicly owned Denver-area park opened Summit Canyon on 16 July 2026: a ProSlide drop-capsule slide with a 425-foot run and the 520-foot Columbine Cascade.The publicly owned Denver-area park opened Summit Canyon on 16 July 2026: a ProSlide drop-capsule slide with a 425-foot run and the 520-foot Columbine Cascade.
Visitors in 2024, TEA/AECOM Global Experience Index (published October 2025).
World Slide Map
Every documented park and record slide as a pin. Filter by type, country or record.
Compare two slides
Kilimanjaro vs Verrückt? Mammoth vs Wildebeest? Line them up side by side.
Slide Passport
Tick off every slide you've ridden and see your total height, length and countries.
Open data
Every slide, park and record as free JSON. Build your own apps and charts on it.