Trapeze

Quick meaning: Trapeze is a noun meaning A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.

Meaning

A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.

More Meanings

1. (anatomy) The trapezium bone.
2. A certain yo-yo trick.
3. To swing on or as on a trapeze.
4. (archaic, geometry) A trapezium.

Example Sentences

[…] the distance between the top of the flexor retinaculum and an imaginary line drawn between the trapeze and the hamate.

I begin a roller-coaster trick by throwing a trapeze, making the yo-yo loop around the finger of my left hand and then land back on the string.

Word Forms

• trapezes
• trapezing
• trapezed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trapezium, triangle, trimba, triquetrum, trigon, tripos.

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