Circus

Circus

A public entertainment consisting performances by acrobats, clowns, and trained animals, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented performers.

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Chambarrier

Entertainment; Circus

A ring whip for horses. Its pole is up to 5. 5 m in length.

Centre pole

Entertainment; Circus

The tallest pole holding the tent up, located in the centre of the tent.

Charee-varie

Entertainment; Circus

Literally "various jokes", an act, which usually took place at the beginning of the performance. It was a fancy-dress cavalcade of performers headed by clowns, and they performed various jumps on ...

A gymnast performing in an aerial act (mainly in flight act) who, having arranged himself on apparatus (e.g. trapeze), grasps it with his legs (by its side ropes) or hangs on elbow support (in loping ...

Butcher

Entertainment; Circus

A concessionaire who sells his/her wares by carrying them into the audience.

Horizontal bar

Entertainment; Circus

This circus apparatus came to circus from sports gymnastics. To improve it, since time an ordinary horizontal bar was transforming into a system of horizontal bars, that are double, triple, etc. , ...