rope-dancing

All other attractions, for example, fairground booths (such as Richardson's tent, where Edmund Kean learned his business in the flare of vats of burning fat), had to find amusements that didn't infringe the regulations – song, ballet, mime, rope-dancing, stilt-walking, fights or animal acts.

Projections of puppet theatre Vera Rule 2010

What can avail your specious, imaginary balances, your rope-dancing, chain-rattling, ridiculous ideal checks and contrivances? ...

Joe Lieberman; Fascist Censor (with poll) 2008

England and America the same theatre exhibits opera, melodrama, tragedy, comedy, rope-dancing, and legerdemain; but in Paris, each branch and element of histrionic art has its separate temple, its special corps of actors and authors, nay, its particular class of subjects; hence their unrivalled perfection.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

The sword-dance -- dancing "among the points of swords and spears with most wonderful agility, and even with the most elegant and graceful motions" -- rope-dancing, feats of balancing, leaping and vaulting, tricks by horses and other animals, and bull-baiting and bear-baiting were also among the public amusements.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

He wrote, "For immediately to repeat a multitude of names or words once repeated before, I esteem no more than rope-dancing, antic postures, and feats of activity; and, indeed, they are nearly the same thing, the one being the abuse of the bodily, as the other is of mental powers; and though they may cause admiration, they cannot be highly esteemed."

A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford

Here's the rope-dancing and juggling, with lots of gilt gingerbread, -- and all for sixpence!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

The Arnea, in the _Piazza di Arni_, built by the French, is dedicated to the populace for their open-air amusements, such as balloon ascents, rope-dancing, fire-works, races, shows, etc.: it contains seats for some

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux

The pigmy size of the Lilliputians symbolizes the littleness of mankind and their interests; the superior skill in rope-dancing which with them is the ground for political advancement, the political intrigues of real men; and the question whether eggs shall be broken on the big or the little end, which has embroiled Lilliput in a bloody war, both civil and foreign, the trivial causes of European conflicts.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

Between the acts of the concert will be given, gratis, several exercises of rope-dancing and tumbling.

Miracle Mongers and Their Methods 1920

For instance, if you loved, and married, and begot, and died, with the seriousness of a person who believes he is performing an action of real importance, and conceded that the perfection of any art, whether it be that of verse-making or of rope-dancing, is at best a by-product of life's conduct; at worst, you probably would not be lonely.

The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918