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A row of arches.
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A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
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An establishment that runs coin-operated games.
Examples of arcades in a Sentence
A peculiarity of Guayaquil is that the upper floors in the business streets project over the walks, forming covered arcades.
The botanical garden, with its large palm-house, the Hofgarten, surrounded with arcades containing frescoes of Greek landscapes by Rottmann, and the Maximilian park to the east of the Isar, complete the list of public parks.
Externally the finest part of the building is the west front, in which the note struck by the range of arches running round the base is repeated by four open arcades.
The upper storey often recedes, leaving wide corridors under the overhanging eaves, and in the " plazas " there are frequently covered arcades.
It is a double arch, and above it are two orders of smaller arcades.
To the south of the church there is a cloister (latter half of the 15th century) with graceful arcades.
The principal square is surrounded by old houses with arcades.
The streets are lined with massive arcades.
There are a cathedral, the church of St Benedict and other churches, with Romanesque 14th-century facades; the town-hall; and the prefecture, with Romanesque arcades.
The interior is composed of oblong court-yards surrounded by buildings and arcades.
Its former greatness is attested by many Roman remains, the chief of which are two well-preserved stone gateways, the Porte d'Arroux and the Porte St Andre, both pierced with four archways and surmounted by arcades.
The mosque is enclosed by houses with windows opening on the arcades and commanding a view of the Ka`ba.
The present town, French in character, has well-built modern streets with many arcades, and numbers among its buildings several mosques and churches, extensive barracks and a large military hospital.
The 18th-century parish church and the 15th-century castle rise in a striking fashion above the town, in the chief street of which are arcades (locally called Lauben) as in Bern.
The nave arcades are of four bays, with octagonal shafts, molded capitals and bases, and pointed arches.
The Rows are simply long, covered arcades formed by running a highway through the first stories of a street of old buildings.
The ancient font offsets what appear to be Victorian arcades.
All amusement arcades need a license to enable the public to play on fruit machines where a cash prize can be won.
The walls of the nave consist of arcades, with Doric colonnades above through which the light enters the building.
Inside, graceful arcades divide the lofty clerestoried nave from the aisles.
These markets take place in the medieval market square with its arched arcades and are delightfully picturesque.
The arcades which form the aisles, consist of four bays of pointed arches resting upon circular columns with molded capitals.
The façade, flanked by two towers with cupolas, is decorated with arcades filled in with statuary and sculpture, the whole representing the Last Judgment.
The arcades in front of the Mecca niche were sometimes of considerable depth, and constituted the prayer chamber (maksura), portions of which were occasionally enclosed with lattice work.
It is remarkable that in the arcades a pillar generally occupies the middle of the façade.
In each division a great street ran through the city from east to west, generally lined with arcades on one side, but with arcades on both sides when traversing the finer and busier quarters.
The nave arcades are of four bays, with octagonal shafts, molded capitals and bases, and pointed arches of two chamfered orders.
The chancel, the nave arcades and the south aisle were rebuilt in the 13th century.
Many of the free to play arcade games found online originally gained popularity as coin-operated games located within business establishments and arcades.
No matter if you've never played Pac Man or want to get that feeling back from when you hit the arcades in the early 1980's, playing Pac Man online can benefit both types of players.
Dedicated teen areas such as video arcades or discos.
The company features a litany of kid-friendly activities and amenities from video arcades and kids' clubhouses to nature programs and hands-on craft workshops.
Several arcades are spread throughout the park and offer not only video games but also ticket-bearing games and prize redemption centers.
With luxury spas, fitness centers, arcades, and other features in addition to the water park, there is truly something for everyone at these themed resorts.
Each park also offers a selection of rides and other attractions, including motion simulators, children's play areas, and lavish gardens, as well as arcades, souvenir shops, and a variety of dining options.
CoCo Key water parks also feature indoor arcades filled with video games, family restaurants and poolside cabanas.
Other amenities include retail stores, arcades, cartoonists, hair braiding and tattoo stations.
However, Bemani games typically used Japanese pop songs as the music set and as such, only a limited number of machines were imported into arcades in North America.
However, they were a big hit and video game arcades everywhere would offer rows of popular titles like Pacman, Centipede, Donkey Kong and Space Invaders.
A Nintendo classic, Donkey Kong first appeared in video game arcades in 1981.
If you're a die-hard video game fanatic (or one of the slightly older crowd), you most likely cut your teeth on the big game cabinets found in restaurants, shopping malls and video arcades across the globe.
For the next several years they suffered a decline in popularity due to home console gaming technology and video arcades building poor reputations as unsafe places to be.
The video arcades and stand-alone arcade cabinets once found in restaurants, laundromats and shopping centers have all but vanished.
However, "family entertainment centers" (the modern equivalent of a video arcade) still offer arcade machines, and video arcades can still be found around the globe.
There was a time when such shooters, especially those that pitted a player-controlled spaceship against hordes of interstellar enemies, dominated both arcades and home consoles.
Seek out arcades that stock a few of the perennial favorites; Centipede, Tempest, Galaga and Pac-Man all seem to be fairly easy to find.
This game did start out in the arcades and was quickly ported to the Sega system due to the popularity and the fact the Dreamcast was probably the only one that could handle it at the time.
Dance Dance Revolution hit the arcades in 1998, but it took two more years before Konami ported it over to the Sony PlayStation.
Although arcades are nowhere near as popular today as they were only ten years ago, there is still a wide range of exercise video games that you can try.
One of the more recent franchises that's been making big splashes, in the arcades especially, is Metal Gear.