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
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
What is the reaction, the consequence of losing trapeze?
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
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
Normal chairs with legs and backs act as trapezes.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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