0 a person who walks along a tightrope (= a tightly stretched wire or rope fixed high above the ground), usually to entertain other people:
I wonder whether it is as a tightrope walker, a juggler or perhaps even one of the clowns.
Leonora looks on in mesmerized fascination at the tightrope walker.
The house is spacious but oddly decorated: the most prominent features are a broken clock with a clown face, and a toy tightrope walker.
Leonora seems particularly drawn to the tightrope walker.
Her father rebelled against becoming a temple priest and instead joined a circus where he worked as a trapeze artist, lion tamer, tightrope walker and magician.
Now we are told that that is recognised, recognised in various degrees by the tightrope walkers we have heard today.
Entertainment in this period included hot air balloon ascents, fireworks, and tightrope walkers.
These tightrope walkers drew huge crowds to witness their exploits.
