tightrope walker
High-wire performer
A tightrope walker is a performer who walks along a thin, taut rope or wire suspended high above the ground, maintaining balance through skill and concentration.
The act requires exceptional equilibrium and nerve: The tightrope walker crossed between the two towers without a safety net.
Figuratively, someone navigating a precarious situation may be called a tightrope walker.
- acrobatAgile circus performer
- funambulistOne who walks ropes
- equilibristAcrobatic balance specialist
- highwireElevated taut cable
- aerialistCircus performer aloft
wirewalker · balance · center of gravity · precariousness · fall · Philippe Petit · balancing act · steady nerves · calculated risk · one false step · juggler · circus performer · circus act · death-defying · concentration · slip · step · safety harness
- wirewalkersfunambulist, Philippe Petit
- circuscircus, big top, clown, clowns, ringmaster
- circus termstrapeze artist, lion tamer, big top, juggler, strongman
- circus workersacrobat, clown, ringmaster, trapeze artist, lion tamer
- daredevilsbase jumper, stuntwoman, stuntman, cliff diver, stunt driver
- variety actsacrobat, juggling, aerialist, magic, clown
tightrope walkergroundling
Theater's lowest-paying spectator
pedestrian · miner · landlubber · farmer
tightrope walkeroffice worker
Indoor professional employee
couch potato · desk jockey · armchair athlete · paper pusher · bureaucrat
tightrope walkerconservative
Cautious about altering customs
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