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trapeze

[ US /tɹəˈpiz/ ]
[ UK /tɹəpˈiːz/ ]
NOUN
  1. a swing used by circus acrobats

How To Use trapeze In A Sentence

  • From elegant trapeze artists to humorous anecdotal scenes of circus life on a shoestring budget, you can see why Camille is tempted to join Petra and run away with the circus.
  • The circus acrobats perform amazing feats on the trapeze.
  • Sandra trained as a dancer and worked as a theatre set painter and then a trapeze artist.
  • I tried a few Trapeze, Fair Verona, Pearl Dragon and found them to be dense, medicinal and even muddy – in short, quite unaccessible. Strange Invisible Perfumes
  • Tom Byam Shaw's Ariel may swing on a trapeze from time to time but his speech – at first strangely elongated, then gabbled – is earthbound and he trips around the stage as if he were an obliging ballet student rather than a sharp-edged sprite. Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review
  • Other attractions at the circus include clowns, acrobats, wire-walkers, trapeze artists, an equestrian display and jugglers.
  • To get there, you must climb up the tippy aluminum construction ladder, fight off your traumatic experience falling off a similar ladder when you were seven and inch your way to the trapeze platform.
  • She makes swinging on a trapeze look way too easy.
  • In recent times I could not bring myself to jump off a platform to a trapeze even though I was in a full body harness and belayed by not one but two belayers.
  • The six-strong troupe entertained children and parents alike with circus acts, such as the trapeze, acrobatics, juggling and plate spinning.
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