trapeze
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The agents booked them a trapeze class for early April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
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
“It was so eloquent. Like watching a trapeze artist on a high wire, poised gracefully in midair.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 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
Then the auditorium becomes a circus, with performers doing flips down the aisles and trapeze acrobats twisting and flipping above them.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
Out of both necessity and the desire to preserve what they call the "Africanness" of their shows, Sencirk uses locally found materials to make its equipment, such as trapezes, safety mats and juggling balls.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2021
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
Over the course of the three-hour show, BTS’ members were lifted on trapezes over the crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2019
Its challenge now is to manage growth while holding on to its mom-and-pop, let’s-put-on-a-show ethos, with treadmills and trapezes.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 28, 2017
Normal chairs with legs and backs act as trapezes.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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