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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Human pyramid

Entertainment; Circus

A human pyramid is a type of gymnastic formation in which the participants kneel together in a row or other formation, forming a base for another tier of participants who stand or kneel on their ...

Fire breathing

Entertainment; Circus

Fire breathing is the act of creating a fireball by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame. Proper technique and the correct fuel create the illusion of danger to enhance the novelty of ...

Firewalking is the act of walking barefoot over a bed of hot embers or stones. Firewalking has been practised by many people and cultures in all parts of the world, with the earliest known reference ...

German wheel

Entertainment; Circus

Wheel gymnastics (German: Rhönradturnen) is a form of gymnastics which originated in Germany. Wheel gymnasts do exercises in a large wheel known as the Rhönrad, gymnastics wheel, gym wheel, or German ...

Human firecracker

Entertainment; Circus

A "Human Firecracker" is a stunt performed where a person attaches large quantities of firecrackers to themselves and the firecrackers are ignited.

Flair bartending

Entertainment; Circus

Flair bartending is the practise of bartenders entertaining guests, clientele or audiences with the manipulation of bar tools (e.g. cocktail shakers) and liquor bottles in tricky, dazzling ways. Used ...

Equilibristics

Entertainment; Circus

Equilibristics is a blanket term for a number of circus skills which involve balancing or maintaining equilibrium. The term applies equally to acts in which the performer balances on a prop, and acts ...