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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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 ...

jockey

Entertainment; Circus

Originally a circus rider dressed in jockey's costume; his performed initially a certain number of tricks and their sequence was fixed too.

juggler

Entertainment; Circus

A circus actor (performer); in the simplest case of juggling, he (she) uses different ways to throw and catch the same or different articles.

kopfstehen

Entertainment; Circus

An acrobatic stand where a performer keeps his body vertically on head. (In 1996, this stand was performed by an acrobat swinging on free-rope at the World Circus Festival in Moscow. )

An apparatus widely used in circus. It may be used in various acts; for example, in antipodists' work where a performer, while lying on trink, is balancing a ladder standing on his feet, and at the ...