tightrope-walker

plural tightrope-walkers

1. alternativeAlternative form of tightrope walker.

   We saw where the great tightrope-walker Karl Wallenda scaled the canyon on a tightrope back in 1970.

   2024 June 29, Bill King, “The third weekend in June”, in Opelika-Auburn News, volume 134, number 181, Opelika, Ala.: Lee Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A9, column 2

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   Mr. Farini [i.e., William Leonard Hunt], the celebrated tightrope-walker, and rival of [Charles] Blondin, advertised that he would carry his wife across the rope stretched from one side of the ring to the other, at a height of about sixty feet, upon his back—a feat he had performed in other places.

   1863 January 17, “Fatal Feat”, in The Belfast News-Letter, year CXXV, number 15,489, Belfast, →OCLC, page [4], column 2

   The novel, which went on to win both a National Book Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, presents several apparently disparate stories while a tightrope-walker modeled after Philippe Petit tiptoes between the twin towers on a wire.

   2025 March 19, Ron Charles, “Colum McCann’s ‘Twist’ drags us to the depths of the ocean”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2025