Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of tightrope walking; rope-walking.
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- noun The art of
walking on atightrope or a slack-rope
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- noun walking on a tightrope or slack rope
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Examples
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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.
Review: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Royal Opera House 2012
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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 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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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 2009
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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 2009
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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.
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Tightrope walking; show of mental agility. (from Phrontistery)
May 24, 2008