Circus

Circus

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

Industry: Entertainment

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Icarian games

Entertainment; Circus

One of varieties of antipode genre. In this instance a performer's partner plays as antipodist's props used for tossing and juggling.

Indian clubs

Entertainment; Circus

These are the most widely used articles of juggling props in addition to balls and rings. It is considered bad style for even medium-skilled juggler to pick up an Indian club from the floor by ...

Illusionist

Entertainment; Circus

A conjurer working with sophisticated apparatuses together with a team of assistants.

Hey, Rube!

Entertainment; Circus

A call for help among circus folk, usually involving fights with locals.

Twenty-four hour man

Entertainment; Circus

A circus employee who plans the route to the next town, marks the route with arrows, and determines where the circus will be set up on the lot.

A short bed, steeply ascending up in its one side and placed onto the ring surface with its other side. An antipodist, lying there on his back and shoulders and leaning against its lifted side with ...