List of roller coaster elements

A roller coaster can be divided into segments, of different shapes, called elements. Elements range from simple airtime hills and helices to more advanced shapes, such as vertical loops and cobra rolls. Some elements, called inversions, flip riders upside-down.

The first inverting roller coasters had very distinct and similar elements. However the shapes of inversions on more modern roller coasters are more varied making splitting them up into elements more difficult, and resulting in many one-of-a-kind inversions, including the drachen fire dive drop and demonic knot. Additionally, some invert riders more than once, for example, the cobra roll.

Inversions

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  Banana roll
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  Barrel roll downdrop
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  Batwing
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  Bowtie
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  Butterfly
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  Cobra loop
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  Cobra roll
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  Corkscrew
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  Cutback
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  Demonic Knot
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  Dive drop
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  Dive loop
• Diving turn
  Diving turn
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  Dog tongue
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  Double inverting dive loop
• Double inverting stall
  Double inverting stall
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  Drachen fire dive drop
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  Finnish loop
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  Fly to lie / Lie to fly
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  Flying snake dive
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  Heartline roll
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  Immelmann
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  In-line twist
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  Inclined dive loop
• 
  Inclined loop
• Lagoon roll
  Lagoon roll
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  Negative-g stall loop
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  Norwegian loop
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  Over-banked inversion
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  Pretzel knot
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  Pretzel loop
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  Raven turn
• Reverse cobra roll
  Reverse cobra roll
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  Reverse sidewinder
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  Roll over
• Rollover camelback
  Rollover camelback
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  Saxophone
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  Scorpion tail
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  Sea serpent
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  Sidewinder
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  SkyLoop
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  Step-up under flip
• Tongue
  Tongue
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  Top-Gun stall
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  Top hat (inside)
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  Twisted horseshoe roll
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  Twisted in-line rollback
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  vertical loop
• Wraparound corkscrew
  Wraparound corkscrew
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  Zero-g roll
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  Zero-g stall
• 
  Zero-g winder

Interlocking elements

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  Interlocking corkscrews
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  Interlocking loops

Non-inverting elements

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  Double dip
• Double down
  Double down
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  Hairpin dive
• Hammerhead turn
  Hammerhead turn
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  Helix
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  High five
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  Hill
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  Horseshoe
• Horseshoe helix
  Horseshoe helix
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  Jr. Scorpion tail
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  Kickflip
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  Non-inverted loop
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  Octopus arm
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  Outward banked airtime hill
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  Over-banked curve
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  Over-banked pretzel knot
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  Pretzel curve
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  Splashdown
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  Splash effect
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  Stengel dive
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  Switch track
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  Tilt section
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  Top hat (outside)
• Treble Clef
  Treble Clef
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  Trick track
• Triple dip
  Triple dip
• Tunnel
  Tunnel
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  Turntable
• Twisted arch
  Twisted arch
• Vertical drop track
  Vertical drop track
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  Vertical rollback
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  Wave turn
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  Windcatcher tower