bouncing transport

jc is chatting with her friend and husband online and asking about their trip in china:

jc: "did you guys ride around on those ricochets?"
her friend's husband: "AHAHAHAHAHA!"
jc: "what's so funny?"
HFH: "you are! it's not called a ricochet!"
jc: "then what is it called?"
HFH: "i'm not telling you. wait till i tell jane about this!"

so then jc asks me what those things are called, where you ride around in a cart and a person is pulling you... i tell her it's called a "rickshaw" and she asks me how it's spelled. then she says, "so then what's a ricochet?" "it's when things bounce off stuff."