rope dancer

British  

noun

1. another name for a tightrope walker

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Example Sentences

Now there was Ensler's rope dancer, one of the most perfect automatons I have ever seen.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

These tenants were a man known as Iron Jaws, a rope dancer called Fanfar, a girl named Caillette, and a clown with an odd name.

From The Son of Monte-Cristo by Lermina, Jules

The rope dancer is able to walk the rope, because he is accustomed to it.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

Why does the rope dancer invariably have to repeat his performances?

From The Handbook of Conundrums by Ordway, Edith B.

State of Knocker.—Jumping up and down the surface of the door like a rope dancer, occasionally diverging into a zig-zag, the key-hole partaking of the same eccentricities.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 by Various