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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The art of tightrope walking; rope-walking.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. walking on a tightrope or slack rope

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  • “Not content with these existing hazards, Graham Vick's amiable, politics-free production for the Royal Opera House, new in 1993 and last seen in 2002, opts for real funambulism.”

    The Guardian: Review: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Royal Opera House

  • “In dancing it is but too common that an intricate _pas seul_, in funambulism that a dangerous feat of equilibration, in the Grecian art of _desultory_ equitation”

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2

  • “Why didn't Man on Wire's Philippe Petit put the "fun" back in funambulism by tiptoeing up to the stage from the farthest balcony?”

    GreenCine Daily

  • “This funambulism is even more significant an achievement for Terán considering the state of the language, a Zapotec dialect spoken by fewer than a hundred thousand inhabitants of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in Oaxaca, Mexico.”

    Hayden's Ferry Review Issue 45

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