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Definition of trapeze in English: trapezenoun trəˈpiːz 1A horizontal bar hanging by two ropes and free to swing, used by acrobats in a circus. （杂技表演用的）吊架，高空秋千 Example sentencesExamples - About 45 street performers will be entertaining the crowds by playing music, walking the trapeze and performing acrobatics.
- Nobody had ever made theatre look like it, let alone Shakespeare - on a bare white stage with trapezes and ropes.
- She makes swinging on a trapeze look way too easy.
- They swoop over the crowd on wires and perform acrobatic feats on trapezes.
- This will be supported by 45 street performers who will entertain the crowds playing music, walking the trapeze, and performing acrobatics.
- Swinging on a trapeze is like your third-grade swingset times ten, and the surge of childish adrenaline makes you giddy.
- Here endeth the circus metaphor: The trapeze I wanted got taken out of the ring today.
- He also tried his hand at boxing, baseball, hockey, and the circus trapeze.
- The six-strong troupe entertained children and parents alike with circus acts, such as the trapeze, acrobatics, juggling and plate spinning.
- Which means they're in just as much of a bind as we are, which means Kim has all kinds of cards to play, which means these talks will be a six-ring circus featuring nuclear weapons on the flying trapeze.
- If you long to walk on stilts, act like a clown or swing on a trapeze, this is the place for you.
- Using silks, ropes, a trapeze and an aerial hoop, the duo examine, with minimal words, that indecipherable emotion.
- In addition to providing books, board games, and magic lantern shows, the Boys' Club of New York opened a gymnasium with trapezes, horizontal bars and boxing equipment.
- At first, she can't even swing on the trapeze; she merely hangs, then falls to the net.
- I think she has in her head a little trapeze with a five-year-old like a circus monkey swinging on it.
- She also happens to be tied up with a cruel and wealthy Duke who wants her to swing on his trapeze.
- From that she swung and caught hold of one of the set of looped vines and using them as trapezes she swung her way across to the flower in the middle.
- Henthorn, a Chicagoan, got hooked on the trapeze after seeing a circus show.
- Also, I'm working on the bungee, and I'm trying really hard to learn the trapeze.
- The Flying Fangalis swung across the trapeze with curved blades, slashing the flailing woman across her mid-section.
2Sailing
A harness attached by a cable to a dinghy's mast, enabling a sailor to balance the boat by leaning backwards far out over the windward side. 〔航海〕（独桅小赛艇平衡用的）吊架 Example sentencesExamples - He introduced innovations in standing and running rigging, sail setting, hydrofoil under-water gear, remotely controlled pumps, self-draining devices, controllable, flexible rigs, trapezes and out-board hung rudders.
- The dinghy has three sails and a trapeze, which allows Katherine to lean out of the boat on a wire to counteract the force of the sails and keep the boat upright.
- These boats added wings and a trapeze, so crews could lean out over the water, providing ballast with their own bodies.
- In the comfort of their trapezes and trampolines, the multihull sailors had an easier time than the courageous Laser sailors, who were constantly adjusting sails, gear and centerboards to the gusts of wind and choppy waters.
OriginMid 19th century: from French trapèze, from late Latin trapezium (see trapezium). RhymesAchinese, Ambonese, appease, Assamese, Balinese, Belize, Beninese, Bernese, bêtise, Bhutanese, breeze, Burmese, Cantonese, Castries, cerise, cheese, chemise, Chinese, Cingalese, Cleese, Congolese, Denise, Dodecanese, ease, éminence grise, expertise, Faroese, freeze, Fries, frieze, Gabonese, Genoese, Goanese, Guyanese, he's, Japanese, Javanese, jeez, journalese, Kanarese, Keys, Lebanese, lees, legalese, Louise, Macanese, Madurese, Maltese, marquise, Milanese, Nepalese, officialese, overseas, pease, Pekinese, Peloponnese, Piedmontese, please, Portuguese, Pyrenees, reprise, Rwandese, seise, seize, Senegalese, she's, Siamese, Sienese, Sikkimese, Sinhalese, sleaze, sneeze, squeeze, Stockton-on-Tees, Sudanese, Sundanese, Surinamese, Tabriz, Taiwanese, tease, Tees, telegraphese, these, Timorese, Togolese, valise, Viennese, Vietnamese, vocalese, wheeze Definition of trapeze in US English: trapezenoun 1A horizontal bar hanging by two ropes (usually high in the air) and free to swing, used by acrobats in a circus. （杂技表演用的）吊架，高空秋千 Example sentencesExamples - I think she has in her head a little trapeze with a five-year-old like a circus monkey swinging on it.
- In addition to providing books, board games, and magic lantern shows, the Boys' Club of New York opened a gymnasium with trapezes, horizontal bars and boxing equipment.
- The Flying Fangalis swung across the trapeze with curved blades, slashing the flailing woman across her mid-section.
- Which means they're in just as much of a bind as we are, which means Kim has all kinds of cards to play, which means these talks will be a six-ring circus featuring nuclear weapons on the flying trapeze.
- Swinging on a trapeze is like your third-grade swingset times ten, and the surge of childish adrenaline makes you giddy.
- At first, she can't even swing on the trapeze; she merely hangs, then falls to the net.
- Also, I'm working on the bungee, and I'm trying really hard to learn the trapeze.
- They swoop over the crowd on wires and perform acrobatic feats on trapezes.
- She also happens to be tied up with a cruel and wealthy Duke who wants her to swing on his trapeze.
- Henthorn, a Chicagoan, got hooked on the trapeze after seeing a circus show.
- About 45 street performers will be entertaining the crowds by playing music, walking the trapeze and performing acrobatics.
- He also tried his hand at boxing, baseball, hockey, and the circus trapeze.
- From that she swung and caught hold of one of the set of looped vines and using them as trapezes she swung her way across to the flower in the middle.
- This will be supported by 45 street performers who will entertain the crowds playing music, walking the trapeze, and performing acrobatics.
- She makes swinging on a trapeze look way too easy.
- If you long to walk on stilts, act like a clown or swing on a trapeze, this is the place for you.
- The six-strong troupe entertained children and parents alike with circus acts, such as the trapeze, acrobatics, juggling and plate spinning.
- Using silks, ropes, a trapeze and an aerial hoop, the duo examine, with minimal words, that indecipherable emotion.
- Nobody had ever made theatre look like it, let alone Shakespeare - on a bare white stage with trapezes and ropes.
- Here endeth the circus metaphor: The trapeze I wanted got taken out of the ring today.
2Sailing
A harness attached by a cable to a dinghy's mast, enabling a sailor to balance the boat by leaning backward out over the windward side. 〔航海〕（独桅小赛艇平衡用的）吊架 Example sentencesExamples - He introduced innovations in standing and running rigging, sail setting, hydrofoil under-water gear, remotely controlled pumps, self-draining devices, controllable, flexible rigs, trapezes and out-board hung rudders.
- The dinghy has three sails and a trapeze, which allows Katherine to lean out of the boat on a wire to counteract the force of the sails and keep the boat upright.
- In the comfort of their trapezes and trampolines, the multihull sailors had an easier time than the courageous Laser sailors, who were constantly adjusting sails, gear and centerboards to the gusts of wind and choppy waters.
- These boats added wings and a trapeze, so crews could lean out over the water, providing ballast with their own bodies.
OriginMid 19th century: from French trapèze, from late Latin trapezium (see trapezium). |