trapezist

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Acrobats sidestep trapezists who pull up on a practice bar.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2017

Everybody, from Cirque du Soleil to impoverished trapezists in the most reckless circuses of Brazil, flies with nets.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2013

But the elephants, the trapezists, the trick riding, the clowns are hardy perennials.

From Time Magazine Archive

His subjects now were the Flying Codonas, Baby Ruth the fat girl, trapezists, clowns, elephants.

From Time Magazine Archive

These tricks resemble those feints of failure common to professional gymnasts and trapezists, purposely perpetrated with the object of magnifying in the mind of the excited spectator the difficulty or danger of the performance.

From Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. by Howe, William F.