train sickness

noun

1. nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the motion of the train in which one is traveling.

Word History and Origins

Origin of train sickness¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

In Technology: Art, Fairground, and Theatre, Dutch philosopher Petran Kockelkoren notes that when people first started traveling by rail, new passengers experienced symptoms of “train sickness” that today we would deem bizarre.

From Slate

The United States and Germany, too, hosted cases of train sickness.

From Slate

For instance, there is no doubt that many people are relieved by wearing dark glasses, and this remedy does good for train sickness and other afflictions of a similar kind.

From Project Gutenberg

Dickey knew the Manager well, which was sufficient to ensure a warm welcome, and the train rushed along at the rate of 57 miles an hour, roaring in and out of the numerous tunnels, our short car whirling round the short curves like the tail of a kite, the sensation being such that when dinner was served Dickey, the manager and I were the only men in the car who were not suffering from train sickness.

From Project Gutenberg

He was so sickly pale, under a kind of yellowish glaze spread over his complexion, that I thought he must be ill, perhaps suffering from train sickness, in anxious anticipation of the horrors which might be in store for him on the boat.

From Project Gutenberg