Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
acrobat | a circus performer on eg the trapeze. |
auguste | (Fr.) a circus clown of the white-faced, bungling type. |
equilibrist | a tightrope walker. |
equilibristic | of or like an equilibrist. |
escamotage | (Fr.) juggling. |
funambulism | tightrope walking. |
funambulist | a tightrope walker. |
juggle | to perform feats of manual dexterity. |
juggler | one that juggles. |
jugglery | the art or act of a juggler. |
juggling | jugglery. |
praxinoscope | an instrument with mirrors in which a series of moving drawings appear as a continuously moving picture; an early form of cinematograph. |
ropedancer | one who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a tightrope. |
ropewalker | a ropedancer. |
slacklining | the activity of walking across a narrow line of synthetic webbing hung slackly above the ground. |
stilter | one who walks on stilts. |
trapeze | a swinglike apparatus used by acrobats; (verb) to perform on a trapeze. |