funambulist

• When presale tickets went on sale in December for her Oakland show, someone clever chose the password: funambulist. —  Fast Company
• Petit (an experienced funambulist) proceeded to spend 45 minutes balancing on a wire stretched between the towers in a spectacular display of illegal tightrope walking. —  The First Post: Latest
• 18.--Greek dancers and tumblers It may astonish the reader to know that the funambulist or rope-dancer was very expert with the Greeks, as also was the acrobat between knives and swords. —  The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D.
• A funambulist may harass his muscles and risk his neck on the tight-rope, but hardly to entertain his own family. —  Biographical Essays
• This extraordinary, real-life feat by French funambulist —  The Savvy Reader

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