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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Grenade hurler

Entertainment; Circus

This term was used in olden times of Russia to name a craft-juggler or strength-applying juggler in today's terms. The name of this genre comes from anchors, cannons, shots that were used by ...

A circus apparatus with limited functions; it is used in aerial acts, mainly in air flight. It is a metal rectangle, half a metre in length and quarter a metre in width, fastened horizontally in the ...

Hemisphere

Entertainment; Circus

One of names of air space under the circus cupola; a space in which aerial acts are performed.

Strabat

Entertainment; Circus

In professional language, coming from German word "Abfall", i.e. slip-off; it is quite striking finale of a number of aerial acts. It is a slip-off trick. One of gymnasts (although this trick may ...

Straps

Entertainment; Circus

A circus apparatus and name of circus genre. Aerial strength-involving genre in which an apparatus consists in two narrow bands made of close-woven material (at present, they are mainly parachute ...

Stain-trapeze

Entertainment; Circus

Basically the name of a genre, rather than an apparatus, performed on a mobile trapeze. The performer's repertoire consists of various swings and pirouettes.

Somersault

Entertainment; Circus

One of the most frequent tricks in circus acrobatics. It is an aerial jump with turn over without support. There are backward, forward, sideways (Arabian) somersaults depending on which direction ...