0 a tightly stretched wire or rope fixed high above the ground, across which skilled people walk, especially in order to entertain others:
One of the acrobats who walked the tightrope at the circus did it blindfolded.
1 a stretched wire or rope fixed above the ground that skilled people walk across, esp. in a circus performance
2 to consider carefully the decisions or risks that you take in order to deal successfully with a difficult situation:
Increasing numbers of employers are having to walk a tightrope between immigration laws and laws relating to discrimination.
He taught them to fire miniature cannons and walk tightropes.
New abilities introduced in this game include picking up and carrying enemies and walking on tightropes across buildings.
A freestyle slackline has no tension in it, while both traditional slacklines and tightropes are tensioned.
Players try to advance on the tightropes in pairs, with their hips and ankles attached to their partner, and have to use overhead ropes to guide them on the tightropes.
Now they must decide on which side of the tightrope they will fall off.
Any major concessions either way will cause the tightrope of acceptability great difficulty.
We have reached an area in which we have a tightrope to walk in deciding to what lengths to go.
Even cinema audiences have been shown the tightrope which international banks have to walk and the consequences of the system breaking down.
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