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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Circus

A board, usually about two metres long, centrally fastened on low-iron trestle and used as a jumping board in high jumping. The performer stands on the lowered end of the board and his partners jump ...

Spanish web

Entertainment; Circus

Spanish Web is the aerial ballet of the circus. Performers dance up and down the rope-like apparatus using a variety of manoeuvres and loops. The Spanish Webs require a high degree of strength, ...

Tumbling

Entertainment; Circus

Tumbling is closely related to gymnastics. Tumbling has always been a part of the circus, in acts such as flip-flop and cartwheels.

Come-in

Entertainment; Circus

Just prior to the start of a performance, when the crowd is moving from the midway into the tent.

Cookhouse

Entertainment; Circus

Place where circus people eat. Also Known as the Pie Car.

Corde volante

Entertainment; Circus

It means a cord fastened without stretching or a flying cord (as translated from French). An aerial act on rope fastened on two ends stretch-free 'to the circus cupola' to form a freely hung arc.

Contortion

Entertainment; Circus

A circus genre in which a performer displays how his (her) muscle are flexible and joints mobile. An old poster name of this genre is "The Snake Woman". As these acts are performed by women in most ...