Word.ws English Dictionary

theme parking

theme parking noun: the transformation into something resembling a theme park.

Noun

theme parking (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, urban studies) The transformation into something resembling a theme park.
    • But Broadway's economic survival would be a Pyrrhic victory of sorts if artistic invention is slowly leached out in an attempt to make the Great White Way a New York outpost of the theme park–ing of America.2004, Steven Adler, On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 28
    • “Theme parking” is also an accusation leveled against many recent urban development schemes as well as the creation of new private public spaces (such as malls).2005, “theme parks”, in Robert Gregg, Gary W. McDonogh, Cindy H. Wong, editors, Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 722

Synonyms of theme parking

Forms of theme parking

alternative formtheme-parking

Origin of theme parking

From theme park + -ing.

Questions about theme parking

What does theme parking mean?
Theme parking means the transformation into something resembling a theme park.
What part of speech is theme parking?
Theme parking is a noun.

Words near theme parking in the dictionary

  1. Thembu
  2. Thembuland
  3. Thembus
  4. theme
  5. theme park
  6. theme parking
  7. theme parks
  8. theme song
  9. theme songs
  10. theme tune
  11. theme tunes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: theme parking (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “theme parking.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/theme_parking. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.