Noun
(fiction) A carpet capable either of magical flight, or instantaneous transport from one place to another, used as a means of travel.
Synonym: flying carpet
(skiing) A conveyor belt to transport skiers/snowboarders.
Synonym: carpet lift
Coordinate terms: T-bar, chairlift, ski lift, rope-tow
Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back? Jeanette Winterson
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. Caroline Gordon
Herbert von Karajan always rolled out a magic carpet for us, the singers. With him, our musical work took on another dimension. Jessye Norman
Imagination is the true magic carpet. Norman Vincent Peale
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination. Frank Auerbach
Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept. Alan Coren