rompers

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There was line dancing and trick ropers, twirling lassos and mechanical bulls, bucking riders and stilt-walkers.

From Slate • May 30, 2023

But with this year’s new influx of social media jump ropers, Mattson said the community has more organization.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2020

A combination of hydraulics, pneumatics, gravity and plain old muscle power — sometimes the planks are moved with ropers, as if they were puppets — powers the machine.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2018

Former standouts and other working ropers end up here, competing in earnest for local and tourist crowds at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays from Memorial Day through Labor Day with finals in September.

From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2015

These were specially favoured by millers, smiths, ropers, and cartwrights, and others of that sort; for even when they had holes to live in, Hobbits had long been accustomed to build sheds and workshops.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien