play the roller coaster vs ride on the roller coaster

Some examples from the web:

• Anyway, the point is some play it safe on the merry-go-round, others go for the thrills on the roller coaster.
• We just went to an amusement park and rode the roller coaster.
• Somebody breached the roller coaster's computer and compromised the code.
• Cracking your head open... always stay seated in the roller-coaster.
• Anyone fallen off the roller coaster recently?
• This is a 3-D rendering Thrill Country sent over of the roller coaster.
• The administrator told him that the roller coaster crash didn't kill enough people.
• To make the roller coaster work,
• I know the exact minute I was born 'cause it was in my mom's lawsuit against the roller coaster.
• He'll probably fall off the roller coaster and break every bone.
• Derek fell off the roller coaster and broke every bone in his body.
• The big Wall Street story today was the roller coaster ride of Bluestar Airlines.
• 'But if you really want the roller-coaster version, 'then don't whinge to me about the stress.
• You can't get off the roller coaster once it's started.
• I couldn't fit everything in that you wanted, Like the roller coaster or the shark tank, But I think it's a pretty good start.
• Remember that night under the roller coaster?
• No screaming on the roller coaster, a solid stomach on the Gravitron.
• I'll mount the roller coaster?
• The roller coaster ride of thrills and danger, treachery and betrayal has only just begun.
• He knew about the painting, about the roller coaster.

Some examples from the web:

• All you wanted was one last ride on the raymond roller coaster.
• Well, I'd rather avoid a ride On the clark-And-Lana roller coaster.
• Now I can do fun things like get on your shoulders and wear a trench coat and be tall enough to ride roller coasters.
• Takes more than 30 tickets to ride this roller coaster.
• The big Wall Street story today was the roller coaster ride of Bluestar Airlines.
• The roller coaster ride of thrills and danger, treachery and betrayal has only just begun.
• Remember when we were kids, I made you ride the roller coaster?
• Let's go to the amusement park, ride a roller coaster.
• I am clearly above the minimum height requirement and shall now ride your roller coaster, for which you are an attendant.
• But I'm afraid you're not old enough to ride this roller coaster.
• What if, instead of going to school, you and I go to galaxy point park and ride roller coasters all day long?
• With gravity forging the path, our planet rounds the Sun... like an endless cosmic roller coaster ride.
• - It was like a ride, this crazy roller coaster ride with - With adrenalin shooting out of my ears.
• They won't even let you ride a roller coaster.
• Then should we go to an amusement park and ride a roller coaster?
• This whole time we've been out here it's been like a midlife crisis roller coaster ride.
• I'm sorry we left your friends early, but trust me, we are in for one crazy roller coaster ride.
• While our journey with the comets has felt like an endless cosmic roller coaster ride, these icy objects will not orbit our Sun forever.
• This whole day has been like a roller coaster ride.
• It's been a roller coaster ride.