0 a short bar hanging high up in the air from two ropes that acrobats use to perform special movements:
1 a short horizontal bar hanging from two ropes, on which acrobats perform:
I held my breath as I watched the performers on the trapeze.
On the other side of the stairway defining this wall we see a ballgame player with the trapeze and ray symbol; this building is aligned with the ballcourt.
This image, bearing several symbols of water and fertility, is located above a trapeze-shaped motif, and at the top it has a border composed of a serrated and feathered strip.
The solo cloud-swing and solo trapeze artist swung above as if it is accepted without question that aerialists are cultural emblems of love, especially in scenarios about romance.
What about the trapeze performer who carries out his performance as high up in the air as the roof of this chamber?
There is nothing to prevent circuses being limited to trapeze artists, jugglers, clowns and variety artists, without the necessity for performing animals.
There is a great danger if the trapeze artist thinks about the safety net all the time, because he then starts to get dizzy.
I do not want to see this unbounded enthusiasm, with people performing on a trapeze and so on.
But this is the kind of thing which, it might be said, is like the man on the flying trapeze.