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trapeze

[tra-peez, truh-] / træˈpiz, trə- /


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However, much of the Caballero family’s performance lore begins with Isabel’s son, 82-year-old Rubén: an apparatus connoisseur well-versed in the high wire, trapeze and hand balancing.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

The agents booked them a trapeze class for early April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

Navigating this period as a journalist and sole parent feels like being a trapeze artist without a net—each day teetering on the edge of madness.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2024

And she had an adventurous side, having taken a trapeze class and gone skydiving with her husband, Seth Jefferds.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

“And her mama and daddy was trapeze artists.”

From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo

They swing from makeshift trapezes and zipline across Christmas trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2024

Out of both necessity and the desire to preserve what they call the "Africanness" of their shows, Sencirk uses locally found materials to make its equipment, such as trapezes, safety mats and juggling balls.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2021

In this event, two-person teams, like the one described above, perform near-acrobatic feats on literal trapezes to zoom around a racecourse, almost like wind-powered NASCAR.

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2021

Its challenge now is to manage growth while holding on to its mom-and-pop, let’s-put-on-a-show ethos, with treadmills and trapezes.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 28, 2017

Normal chairs with legs and backs act as trapezes.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern


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