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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Aerial hoop

Entertainment; Circus

Aerial Hoop is a metallic hoop suspended in mid air, providing a showcase of grace and poise for the artist.

Clown

Entertainment; Circus

A circus actor, a performer of comic tricks (acts). There is a great number of various clown lines: carpet clown, buff-clown, auguste, eccentric clown, music clown, etc.

Cloud swing

Entertainment; Circus

Aerial act in which an individual performs on a loop of rope suspended from the top of the tent.

Circus ring

Entertainment; Circus

A round area inside a circus where circus acts are displayed. Diameter of ring is the same in all countries, it is around 13 m. Ring is always fenced; its ground and cover were originally fit to ...

A separate completed part of any circus act, which has independent meaning. It has effect on the audiences with such actually fulfilled solution that is beyond the scope of common notion and seems ...

Climbing bar

Entertainment; Circus

Those who have ever seen a horizontal bar can imagine easily what it is. Climbing bars are two side vertical supports of the horizontal bar.

Circus act

Entertainment; Circus

A set of similar tricks that are carried out by one performer or a group of human or animal performers in certain sequence within a given period; the said tricks are designed to implement any idea, ...