escape artists
Masters of extrication
Escape artists are performers who specialize in freeing themselves from restraints—handcuffs, straitjackets, locked containers, or elaborate bondage.
The term extends to anyone skilled at evading capture or obligation: Houdini was the greatest escape artist of all time.
My cat is an escape artist—she gets out of every enclosure we build.
- jailbreakersThose fleeing confinement
- vanishCease to be visible
- contortionistsPerformers with extreme flexibility
- keyLock-opening device
- disappearPass from visibility
Harry Houdini · evasion · lockpicks · lock picking · death-defying · chains · trapdoors · slip · vaudevillians · artifice · illusionist · performers · straitjackets · straight jacket · bound and gagged · buried alive · milk can · death trap
- entertainerssingers, actor, dancers, actress, musicians
- carnivalparade, costume, float, ferris wheel, roller coaster
- vaudevillevaudeville, variety show, variety act, music hall, headliner
- magicwizard, wand, sorcerer, witchcraft, mage
- performersactor, dancer, actress, singer, musician
- criminalsmurderer, thief, burglar, criminal, killer
escape artistsjailers
Those who guard prisoners
prison guards · captors · wardens · guards · imprisoners
escape artistsbounty hunters
Those paid to capture fugitives
trackers · manhunters · skip tracers · bloodhounds · pursuers
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