trapeze

Whether he is insinuating himself into a juggling routine or flubbing a trapeze act, he clearly has those skills in his toolkit.

If Ruth had had any doubts about the trapeze artist and her father, she was at once disarmed when Barnabetta came down to dinner.

But he was bound to relieve his feelings somehow, and the trapeze was just what he wanted.

The wish to conquer increasing difficulties has raised the equilibrists from the slack wire to the trapeze.

This time he was to give a performance on the trapeze, and he ran up the ladder as easily as a monkey, cracking out many jokes.

Trapeze performers usually ascend to their rigging on a net webbing, hand over hand sailor fashion.