ABSP: Words - Circus

Culture > Arts & Crafts > Circus

Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.

acrobat	a circus performer on eg the trapeze.
auguste	(Fr.) a circus clown of the white-faced, bungling type.
equilibrist	a tightrope walker.
equilibristic	of or like an equilibrist.
escamotage	(Fr.) juggling.
funambulism	tightrope walking.
funambulist	a tightrope walker.
juggle	to perform feats of manual dexterity.
juggler	one that juggles.
jugglery	the art or act of a juggler.
juggling	jugglery.
praxinoscope	an instrument with mirrors in which a series of moving drawings appear as a continuously moving picture; an early form of cinematograph.
ropedancer	one who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a tightrope.
ropewalker	a ropedancer.
slacklining	the activity of walking across a narrow line of synthetic webbing hung slackly above the ground.
stilter	one who walks on stilts.
trapeze	a swinglike apparatus used by acrobats; (verb) to perform on a trapeze.

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