trapeze artist

noun

1. a person who performs, especially professionally, on a trapeze.

Example Sentences

Behind-the-scenes Broadway workers are like trapeze artists in a way, swinging from job to job as one show closes and others open, keeping one another apprised of upcoming opportunities.

From Time

Freed from her guitar, but wearing counterintuitive pumps, she leaned back like a trapeze artist.

From The Daily Beast

Along the way he also picked up the skills to be an acrobat, a juggler, a wire walker, a trapeze artist, and a clown.

From The Daily Beast

A great acrobat or trapeze artist has no recognized place in society, and his ambition is of a low character.

From Project Gutenberg

I propose to make a magnificent trapeze-artist out of her, and willingly risk my life to do it.

From Project Gutenberg

One of them, Millie, had become a great balancing trapeze artist, and was with the Forepaugh circus.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

The little girls, who had not seen Barnabetta arrive in her boys apparel, were taken with the trapeze artist at once.

From Project Gutenberg