high wire walker
Aerial cable acrobat
A high wire walker is a performer who walks, balances, and performs acrobatics on a taut wire or rope suspended high above the ground.
The act requires exceptional balance, concentration, and nerve.
High wire walkers may use a balancing pole or work without one, and performances range from circus acts to daring crossings between buildings or natural landmarks: The high wire walker crossed between the twin towers.
- tightropeTaut cord for walking
- balancing actManaging multiple competing priorities
- acrobatAgile circus performer
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- center of gravityEquilibrium point of mass
circus · circus act · daredevil · net · narrow escape · trapeze · vertigo · pole · Philippe Petit · Twin Towers · big top · fearless · steady nerves · steady · death-defying · death wish · one false step · sequins
- circus workersacrobat, clown, ringmaster, trapeze artist, lion tamer
- daredevilsbase jumper, stuntwoman, stuntman, cliff diver, stunt driver
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Comedic performer in makeup
mime · balloon artist · magician · puppeteer · stilt walker
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Powerful lifter or despot
weightlifter · powerlifter · wrestler · boxer · trapeze artist
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