trapeze
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The agents booked them a trapeze class for early April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
When circus-goers witness acts like a triple somersault on the trapeze or spinning in a human hamster wheel without a harness, they see a fleeting moment that is said to have divine impact.
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
She stopped before a golden trapeze, suspended from the ceiling, on which hung a disjointed life-size puppet.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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
At Stunt Ranch, on the outskirts of Austin, there were ziplines, trapezes, paintball courses and a fireball-maker.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2017
Normal chairs with legs and backs act as trapezes.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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