Crossword clues for aerialist
aerialist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
aerialist \aer"i*al*ist\ n.
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an athlete who performs acts high above the ground on a trapeze or high wire, requiring skill and agility and coordination.
Syn: trapeze artist
a burglar who gains entrance to buildings from the rooftop, sometimes leaping from building to building in the process. A type of second-story man. [Slang]
Wiktionary
n. An acrobat performing high off the ground, defying a fall to earth, as on a trapeze or a tightrope.
WordNet
n. an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze)
Usage examples of "aerialist".
Paris, there was a girl aerialist who made herself notorious and acclaimed.
France has revolutionized the art, and every other aerialist in the world is following his lead.
The missing girl aerialist who had been drawing all eyes when the holdup began!
They were a carny crowd waiting for the aerialist to take his dive, and kill himself.
Convinced I could see nothing, she led me down the alley, leading me like an aerialist beckoning on the high wire.
The horses, the bull Brutus, even the human acrobats and aerialists and jugglers.
The Pope would die and the circus would actually begin with the tawdry tinkle of the hurdy-gurdy and monkeys on chains, the trumpet fanfare of a Fellini movie and the clowns and all the freaks and aerialists joining hands, dancing, capering across the screen.
Caitlin had groomed her horses to a satin sheen of renewed health, Florizel and his cohorts were perfecting a new clown act of which he was inordinately proud, and the jugglers, aerialists, acrobats, and dog trainers went about their tasks with cheerful absorption.
She, of course, was a d'Alembert, too, and had been one of the supporting aerialists twenty-five years ago, when Duke Etienne had been a performer with the Circus.
She, of course, was a d’Alembert, too, and had been one of the supporting aerialists twenty five years ago, when Duke Etienne had been a performer with the Circus.
Ned said, "don't get yourself so mixed up with clowns and aerialists that you can't even find time to talk to me!
The horses, the bull Brutus, even the human acrobats and aerialists and jugglers.
It was great, just great, and when they'd finished and the aerialists came out again, the four of them took their bows to a huge wash of applause, my hands smacking away with the rest.
The Miraculous Mirambelles, poised and confident, aerialist builders with a grace and sense of balance that would shame a cat or a squirrel, directing the robot spinners in their monofilament spans three thousand meters above the ground.