picture an arbitrarily-shaped apparatus the length of a city street hovering above a lake. it's wired to a control console on the shore, which can be used to alter the apparatus's pitch, roll, or yaw to the user's whims

then put a chimpanzee in a ball and put it at one end

we don't need to dismantle the [offshore] oil wells once we stop extracting oil, we could simply use them to suspend Super Person Ball courses

while you're at it you could probably rig up a pumpjack to launch platforms into the air or rotate bollards