trapeze
an apparatus, used in gymnastics and acrobatics, consisting of a short horizontal bar attached to the ends of two suspended ropes.
(on a small sailboat) a device by which a crew member can be suspended almost completely outboard while hiking.
Origin of trapeze
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How to use trapeze in a sentence
He hops on a trapeze—it’s a metaphor for facing fear—talks to a rider who lost part of his leg in a motorcycle accident, and concludes, “Well, I think, everybody’s gotta find their own way of managing being scared.”
Jeff Goldblum on riding motorcycles—and feeling fear | Rob Verger | January 20, 2022 | Popular-ScienceFreed from her guitar, but wearing counterintuitive pumps, she leaned back like a trapeze artist.
trapeze artists and those shot out of cannonballs would fall to their death.
We’re All Carnies Now: Why We Can’t Quit the Circus | Anthony Paletta | November 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor a hot minute, we had Mayor Bloomberg in a trapeze, but we lost him.
Oscars Host Neil Patrick Harris on His Best and Worst Emcee Moments (VIDEO) | Neil Patrick Harris | October 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTtrapeze tragedy The St. Louis trapeze Incident occurred in 1872.
Thrills and Too Many Spills: The Dangers of the Circus | Marina Watts | May 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The miner's job would be as much beyond my power as it would be to perform on a flying trapeze or to win the Grand National.
"—And right there is where you would miss the trapeze bar by a foot, and no net under you," interrupted Davy disgustedly.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. HarneyHowever, the Prince pointed out to me the girl on the trapeze, the same one you had admired in Rome.
Polly the Pagan | Isabel AndersonIn the loft a boy learns to turn flip-flops, and with a lariat rope he can make a trapeze.
Bill's School and Mine | William Suddards FranklinThen if the bar be grasped and the body thrown forward, the trapeze, the arms, and the body will form the segment of a circle.
As I sat on the trapeze bar there was that boy forty feet above me kicking and yelling.
Careers of Danger and Daring | Cleveland Moffett
British Dictionary definitions for trapeze
/ (trəˈpiːz) /
a free-swinging bar attached to two ropes, used by circus acrobats, etc
a sling like a bosun's chair at one end of a line attached to the masthead of a light racing sailing boat, used in sitting out
Origin of trapeze
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