All water slides
51 slides documented so far, from 15 countries. This is a living database: every slide has a page with figures, status, records, sources and a playable Ride Simulator. Know one we're missing?Every slide we know about. Tap one to ride it!
Speed slide
About this type →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.
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.
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.
High Tower
A slide tower 80 metres tall is being built in China.Guangzhou Haisan is building an 80 m slide tower that would set a new world record if it opens as planned.
Leap of Faith
A nearly straight-down slide that ends in a clear tunnel THROUGH a lagoon full of sharks!A 60 ft near-vertical body slide ending in a clear tunnel through a shark lagoon; the original "shark slide".
Tower of Power
A 28-metre speed slide that finishes in a glass tunnel through an aquarium full of sharks and rays.Tower of Power is a 28 m ProSlide FreeFALL that finishes in a glass tunnel through a shark and ray aquarium.
Summit Plummet
A 36-metre speed slide disguised as a ski jump at a snowy-looking water park in sunny Florida!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.
Cannonball
A launched body slide in the Austrian mountains, at a park for extreme sports.A wiegand launched body slide at Austria's extreme-sports park.
Tidal Tower
A 52-metre tower with eight slides on a cruise-ship island, opened September 2026.Great Tides' Tidal Tower is 170 ft (52 m) tall with eight slides; the height is the tower, not the slide drop.
Hurricane
A 45-metre free-fall slide in China, the tallest in Asia until Meryal opened.Tailong's 45 m Hurricane free-fall towers (Merry Pi Beach Park 2015; 88°C Spring Water World 2016) were Asia's tallest until Meryal.
Captain Spacemaker
A 42-metre slide in Italy that was Europe's tallest for years.Captain Spacemaker at Aqualandia, Jesolo, is a 42 m inline raft speed slide, long billed as Europe's tallest until the Land of Legends tower (2026).
Water coaster (jets)
About this type →Verrückt
A raft slide as tall as a 17-storey building.A three-rider raft slide with a 168 ft 7 in (51.
Junoon Drop
A water coaster 12 storeys tall that opened in April 2026.A WhiteWater "Family Mega Drop" water coaster billed at 12 storeys (~138 ft), which would top Massiv's 81.
Massiv
Nearly 25 metres tall with three uphill blasts.A WhiteWater Master Blaster with three uphill blasts and a triple drop; Guinness measured 81 ft 6.
Shockwave
449 metres of raft coaster on Dubai's Trident Tower.The first ProSlide MammothBLAST, 449 m long, opened 1 March 2021 on the Trident Tower and marketed as the world's longest family rafting water coaster.
Master Blaster
The very first water coaster in the world.The world's first uphill water coaster: 65 ft tall, 1,100 ft long.
Rocket Blast
A jet-powered water coaster that won best new water ride in 2023.An 831 ft, 67.
Tsunami Surge
A 26-metre water coaster near Chicago that was the tallest in the world when it opened in 2021.Tsunami Surge is a WhiteWater Master Blaster: 86 ft (26 m) tall, 950 ft long, 28 mph, opened 29 May 2021.
Bandit Bomber
A roller coaster where you fire water cannons at people below, and they fire back!Bandit Bomber (20 Jan 2013) is a 515 m, 23 m Vekoma suspended coaster with onboard water cannons, the first roller coaster with interactive water effects.
Water coaster (magnets)
About this type →Mammoth
537 metres of ups and downs in a spinning six-person boat.ProSlide HydroMAGNETIC Mammoth: 1,763 ft (537 m), 69 ft tall, seven drops (largest 32 ft at 45°), six-person spinning boats, a three-minute ride and a US$9 m budget.
Wildebeest
Mammoth's big brother, next door.The longest water coaster from 2010 to 2012 at 1,710 ft (520 m), 64 ft tall and 24.
Deluge
The first water coaster pushed by magnets instead of jets.The first magnetic-launch water coaster (ProSlide HydroMAGNETIC Rocket): 57 ft tall, 890 ft long, four-person tubes.
Krakatau Aqua Coaster & Ko'okiri Body Plunge
A magnet coaster that dives in and out of a 60-metre volcano!Volcano Bay replaced Wet 'n Wild Orlando on 25 May 2017.
Looping slide (AquaLoop)
About this type →Speedy Jamezales
An AquaLoop about 27 metres tall, ten metres taller than normal ones.About 27 m, versus the standard 17 m AquaLoop.
Scorpion's Tail
The first looping slide in America.The first looping water slide in the United States: a 400 ft WhiteWater AquaLoop with a near-vertical trapdoor drop.
Cannonball Loop
A slide with a completely straight-up-and-down loop.An enclosed body slide ending in a full vertical loop, built in 1983 and open for about a month in 1985 before state regulators shut it.
AquaLoop (Terme 3000)
The very first looping water slide in the world, opened in Slovenia in May 2008.Co-developed by Aquarena and WhiteWater West, the first AquaLoop opened at Terme 3000, Moravske Toplice, in May 2008: a 17 m trapdoor drop into a 45° inclined loop, 88.
Funnel slide (Tornado)
About this type →Trident Tower (Odyssey of Terror & Blackout)
A 48-metre tower with 12 slides, including the tallest double funnel in the world (Odyssey of Terror).The 48 m Trident Tower opened 1 March 2021 with 12 ProSlide rides, including the world's tallest Double TornadoWAVE 60 (Odyssey of Terror) and the tallest FreeFALL in EMEA (Blackout).
Zinga
One of the first three funnel slides ever built, with an 18-metre-wide funnel.One of the three inaugural ProSlide Tornados, with a 60 ft funnel reached by a 270° helix.
Dawwama
The biggest six-person funnel in the world, 20 metres across, with magnets to push the raft uphill first.Dawwama is a six-person hydromagnetic ProSlide Tornado with a 20 m funnel, the largest of its kind.
Vuvuzela
A giant funnel slide in Malaysia named after the loud South African trumpet.Sunway Lagoon's Vuvuzela (2013) is a ProSlide Tornado marketed as the world's largest vortex water slide when it opened.
SlideWheel
About this type →SlideWheel (Chimelong)
The first spinning-wheel slide ever, opened on 1 April 2018.The world's first rotating water slide, opened 1 April 2018 by wiegand.
Medusa's Slidewheel
A spinning-wheel slide in Wisconsin Dells, the first in America.Medusa's Slidewheel (2022) at Mt.
Rapid Refinery
Meryal's SlideWheel, themed like an oil refinery.Rapid Refinery is the SlideWheel at Meryal Waterpark, Qatar (2023).
Slithereel
Aquarabia's SlideWheel, which the park says is the longest ever built.Slithereel (April 2026) is billed by Aquarabia as the world's longest SlideWheel; no length has been published.
Trapdoor slide
About this type →Thrillagascar & Jungle Jammer
Trapdoor slides 43 metres tall, all INSIDE a building in New Jersey.ProSlide SkyBOX trapdoor launches into 142 ft (43.
Ihu's Breakaway Falls
Three trapdoors side by side, 126 steps up.Three breakaway drop boxes and one open slide from an 80 ft tower with 126 steps, drops up to 40 ft and 420 ft of flume.
Summit Canyon (Aspen Falls & Columbine Cascade)
Brand new in July 2026: a trapdoor slide with a 130-metre run at one of the oldest water parks in America.The largest renovation since the 1980s at one of the oldest operating parks (1979, publicly owned): a ProSlide drop capsule with a 425 ft-plus run (Aspen Falls) and the 520 ft Columbine Cascade, opened 16 July 2026.
Dark slide
About this type →The Black Hole & Der Stuka
The Black Hole was a famous pitch-dark tube slide.Der Stuka was the archetypal 1980s speed slide; The Black Hole (1990, WhiteWater enclosed tubes) set the template for dark slides.
Magic Eye
A 360-metre tunnel slide in Germany, said to be the longest closed tube slide in the world.Galaxy Erding's 360 m Magic Eye is billed by the park as the world's longest enclosed tube slide; the claim is not Guinness-verified.
Blue Bullet
A dark tube slide with see-through blue stripes, inside a Canadian shopping mall.Blue Bullet at World Waterpark, West Edmonton Mall, mixes translucent and dark sections.