Definition of Trapeze

1. Noun. A swing used by circus acrobats.

Generic synonyms: Swing

Definition of Trapeze

1. n. A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.

Definition of Trapeze

1. Noun. (archaic) A trapezium. ¹

2. Noun. A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; — used by gymnasts. ¹

3. Verb. To swing on a trapeze ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trapeze

1. a gymnastic apparatus [n -S]

Medical Definition of Trapeze

1. 1. A trapezium. See Trapezium. 2. A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; used by gymnasts. Origin: Cf. F. Trapeze. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trapeze

trapball
trapdoor
trapdoor function
trapdoor functions
trapdoor spider
trapdoor spiders
trapdoors
trape
traped
trapes
trapesed
trapeses
trapesing
trapezate
trapeze (current term)
trapeze artist
trapeze dress
trapeze dresses
trapezed
trapezelike
trapezes
trapezia
trapezial
trapeziform
trapezii
trapezing
trapeziometacarpal
trapezist
trapezists

Literary usage of Trapeze

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"Above the stage hung the trapeze on which George and the two posture- girls were to be. At a certain signal I was to let the rope go, and George, ..."

2. Lessons in Elementary Practical Physics by Balfour Stewart, William Winson Haldane Gee (1901)
"The trapeze Earth Inductor. — In the absence of a proper earth inductor a simple form may be used. This consists of a wooden rod ..."

3. Lessons in Elementary Practical Physics by Balfour Stewart, William Winson Haldane Gee (1891)
"The upper ends of the wire are connected with leading wires fixed so that they may not be disturbed by the swinging of the trapeze. Four uprights are fixed ..."

4. Modern Gymnastic Exercises by Alexander Alexander (1890)
"There was a time when the " trapeze" constituted the almost universal definition of ... Technically, no doubt, it was right, for the trapeze is a gymnastic ..."

5. Dick's Art of Gymnastics: Containing Practical and Progressive Exercises by William Brisbane Dick (1885)
"The trapeze is practically a combination of the horizontal bar with the rings, ... The exercises given for the trapeze are necessarily very similar to those ..."

6. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"Olmar told me that his ladder was made of the best Jamaica lance-wood; the bar of the trapeze was 4^ feet long, and 2 inches in diameter; the apparatus with ..."

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