sawdust ring

Where acrobats perform

A sawdust ring is a circus arena, from the traditional practice of covering the performance floor with sawdust to absorb animal waste and cushion falls.

The term evokes the world of traveling circuses and carnival performers: She spent her childhood in the sawdust ring, following her acrobat parents from town to town.

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acrobats · clowns · elephants · wild animals · trapeze · flying trapeze · ringmaster · performers · tent · spectacle · center stage · tanbark · horses · lions · spotlight · audience · applause · standing ovation

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type of performance venue

sawdust ringopera house

Venue for staged singing

concert hall · legitimate theater · recital hall · boxing ring · lecture hall

combat sport venue

sawdust ringboxing ring

Roped platform for pugilism

boxing arena · prize ring · wrestling ring · octagon · squared circle

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dust, ring, saws, sawed, sawing, sawyer, dusts, dusted, dusting

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