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Swing - not fully erected - said to move very gradually
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trapeze
Alternative clues for the word trapeze
Word definitions for trapeze in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trapeze \Tra*peze"\, n. [Cf. F. trap[`e]ze.] (Geom.) A trapezium. See Trapezium , 1. A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; -- used by gymnasts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
swing with a cross-bar, used for feats of strength and agility, 1861, from French trapèze, from Late Latin trapezium (see trapezium ), probably because the crossbar, the ropes and the ceiling formed a trapezium.\n\nThe French, to whose powers of invention ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A trapeze is a short horizontal bar hung by ropes or metal straps from a support. It is an aerial apparatus commonly found in circus performances . Trapeze acts may be static, spinning (rigged from a single point), swinging or flying, and may be performed ...
Usage examples of trapeze.
The impact started that trapeze swinging, and now the bespangled Maurice literally flashed back and forth, like blue lightning, between the two high-swinging bars, sometimes catching hold with his hands, sometimes with his bent knees, sometimes only by his toes.
The screenwriter loved that moment after the Skywalk when the boy is descending on the dental trapeze, spinning in the spotlight as the gleaming sequins on his singlet throw back the light.
He made an extra backswing for momentum, then drove his trapeze forward again, upward and upward to an almost unbelievable height.
Liss went off the board, swinging neatly, taking the trapeze on the backswing beneath her bent knees, stretching her wrists to Barbara.
He had learned that it was safe to kick a mere canvasman when you felt like doing so, but that a real artist, such as a tumbler or a trapeze man, was to be respected, and that the person of the ring-master was most sacred.
Some other persons perform wonderful feats of a similar nature on an oscillating trapeze, and many similar performances have been witnessed by the spectators of our large circuses.
Florian or Colonel Ramrod to excuse them from the next show, and often just minutes before they were due to go on, for fear that the cramps or the diarrhea were about to strike when they were variously on the trapeze, on a rosinback horse, on the tightrope or in one of the wild animal cages.
The screenwriter loved that moment after the Skywalk when the boy is descending on the dental trapeze, spinning in the spotlight as the gleaming sequins on his singlet throw back the light.
He spins and rolls with confident grace as he flies between four trapezes, and he has no safety net.
After a few ragged swings the trapeze came to rest in the center, Jack hanging from it.
Gripping a thread with her front tarsi, or fingers, she turns, one after the other, a number of back somersaults, like those of an acrobat on the trapeze.
Maurice and Paprika were closely eyeing the men arranging their trapeze apparatus up near the roof peak, and Sunday and Monday Simms were just as closely watching other men tighten the turnbuckles of their rope slanted between peak and ground.
A trapeze act was on, and the four performers were swinging out on the flying rings.
Eric, the daring young men on the flying trapeze, moving as outside observers, would be able to comprehend the havoc they were wreaking as they flashed back and forth across the fabric of time, reweaving it as they went.
But the main attraction seemed to be scantily clad men and women swinging on trapezes suspended from the high ceiling.