trapeze

The agents booked them a trapeze class for early April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

The circus is still in town, but the trapeze artists, tightrope walkers and other eye-catching acts are no more.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025

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

One particular ensemble captured the essence of the collection: a pearl trapeze silhouette garment with cushion-like embellishments.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

Then the auditorium becomes a circus, with performers doing flips down the aisles and trapeze acrobats twisting and flipping above them.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

His final production for the RSC, in 1970, was a memorable, airborne version of A Midsummer Night's Dream using trapezes and stilts.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2022

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

An act called Spicy Circus bounds atop twinned trampolines, and I took no notes as the Flying Tunizianis flung themselves toward their trapezes because it turns out I can’t write while I’m gaping.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2018

The climactic set-piece, involving sharp blades and swinging trapezes, has no real business working — until McKinnon uncorks a wide-eyed, show-must-go-on lunacy worthy of Lucille Ball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2018

She went on to regale them with stories about circus life—hanging from trapezes, leaping through flaming hoops, getting shot from cannons—until gradually Sticky cheered up, and the matter of parents was dropped.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart