trapeze
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The agents booked them a trapeze class for early April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
Around 20 jugglers, trapeze artists and concession stand workers are filtering into the big top that the majestic Circus Vargas uses to perform across 25 California cities 11 months out of the year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
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
Apparently, for fun, kids like the ones at Chumley enjoy trapeze arts, yacht sailing, Formula One go-kart racing, summering in the winter, horseback riding, and fashion accessorizing.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
Brook’s cobweb-clearing 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” famously ditched the forest scenery for a white box and circus trapezes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
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
Gamboling in its clinical white galleries, life-size polar bears, smothered in Day-Glo plumage, play tag, dance, hang on trapezes, scratch itches, and generally introduce raucous joy to the hushed precinct.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 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
Normal chairs with legs and backs act as trapezes.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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