Wiktionary
n. A person who is skilled at escaping from confinement, often as a profession with escapes performed before an audience.
Wikipedia
An escape artist is an expert on escapology, the practice of escaping from restraints or other traps.
Escape artist may also refer to:
- Escape Artist Records, independent record label formed in 1997
- The Escape Artist, 1982 American film
- The Escape Artist (TV series), a 2013 BBC thriller series
- Escape Artist (Garland Jeffreys album), 1981
- Escape Artist, the original title of the Our Lady Peace album Burn Burn
Escape Artist is the sixth solo album by Garland Jeffreys. It was released in 1981 by A&M Records, Epic Records in the United States. The album originally included a 7" single "Escapades". The cover photography was by Anton Corbijn.
Usage examples of "escape artist".
Our first routine is from the repertoire of a performer everyone's heard of: Harry Houdini, the greatest escape artist in America, if not the world, a man who performed before crowned heads of state and U.
Billing himself as Bondo, the Escape Artist, he would pretend to rob audience members of their fine jewelry, watches and gold pieces, only to assure them that he would be locked up like a criminal in a four-sided cage with iron bars, his hands and feet cuffed and chained.
One of my earliest heroes was Harry Houdini, the colorful escape artist.
It had sounded fantastic over the telephone, but when Bushfekete flew to Switzerland to see it, he found that there was one insurmountable problem: it took the escape artist thirty minutes to escape.