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Acrobat's apparatus
Answer for the clue "Acrobat's apparatus ", 11 letters:
teeterboard
Alternative clues for the word teeterboard
Word definitions for teeterboard in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A seesaw; teetertotter. 2 A similar board used by acrobats that sends a human into the air when another human jumps onto the opposite end.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end [syn: seesaw , teeter-totter , tilting board , dandle board ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The teeterboard (or Korean plank ) is an acrobatic apparatus that resembles a playground seesaw . The strongest teeterboards are made of oak (usually 9 feet in length). The board is divided in the middle by a fulcrum made of welded steel. At each end of ...
Usage examples of teeterboard.
Chinese stood side by side, bowed politely, then dragged the teeterboard to where Peggy was tethered, and began to jabber at Hannibal.
The Chinese were rehearsing with the teeterboard and Peggy, while Monday and Tuesday Simms waited to join in.
Her four big feet were still on the teeterboard, but her bulk leaned outward against the gunwale alongside her.
Instead, Monday, Quincy and the three Chinese cartwheeled into the pista, beckoned Brutus onto the teeterboard and, as she seesawed happily, did their poses and pyramids and leapfrogging on her back.
Between those sessions, Monday and Quincy worked on new routines with the three Chinese, the elephant and the teeterboard, and Sunday went doggedly on with her language lessons.
The dwarfs tried to coax the elephant to stamp on the raised end of the teeterboard while Vinod was sitting on the other end, but the elephant was taught to delay stamping on the teeterboard until the third time.
The dwarf is recovering from surgery, following the results of the Elephant on a Teeterboard item.