trapezist

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

He also bought a keyboard, took up leather tanning and became a trapezist; he has looked into falconry and taken up beekeeping and talks of buying a farm for the bees.

She sat for hours over many months with the trapezist’s son and daughter, reciting the catechism.

At Kelly Miller, the trapezist doesn’t use a net.

After starting as a solo trapezist for Barnum & Bailey in 1909, he switched to the flying trapeze in 1913, recruited by his father for an act with his brother, Lalo.