trapeze

plural trapezes

1. A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.

   He's free as a breeze He's always at ease He lives in the jungle And hangs by his knees As he swings through trees Without a trapeze In his BVD's.

   1969, “Gitarzan”, Ray Stevens, Bill Everette (lyrics), performed by Ray Stevens

2. archaicgeometryA trapezium.
3. anatomyThe trapezium bone.

   […] the distance between the top of the flexor retinaculum and an imaginary line drawn between the trapeze and the hamate.

   2013, World Health Organization, Manual of Diagnostic Ultrasound, volume 2, page 463

4. A certain yo-yo trick.

   I begin a roller-coaster trick by throwing a trapeze, making the yo-yo loop around the finger of my left hand and then land back on the string.

   2011, Karen Krossing, The Yo-Yo Prophet, page 81

present singular third person trapezes · participle present trapezing · participle past trapezed · past trapezed

1. To swing on or as on a trapeze.

1. A mountain on the Courbet Peninsula, Grande Terre, Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.