trapeze
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The agents booked them a trapeze class for early April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
Flying trapeze artist Mariella Arata-Quiroga, daughter of Vargas owners and longtime friends of Cancro, Nelson Quiroga and Katya Arata-Quiroga, turns to smile at her grandfather, Victor Arata, a retired high-wire performer.
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
As for Morgan Gibbs-White exaggerating the challenge, and flying through the air like a trapeze artist, he should be ashamed of himself.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2024
The trapeze jumps into your mind from all those miles away.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
They swing from makeshift trapezes and zipline across Christmas trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2024
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
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
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