tightrope walker

noun

1. an acrobat who performs on a tightrope

Derived Forms

• tightrope walking, noun

Example Sentences

His first series, “Jultagi,” used the Korean tightrope walker as a metaphor for the immigrant experience.

From Los Angeles Times

Their buccaneering batting is made all the more thrilling by the risk of it going spectacularly wrong, like watching a tightrope walker tiptoe between skyscrapers.

From BBC

In one video, a tightrope walker suspended between two mountains edges toward the viewer, creating an unsettling urge to look down at an intimidating chasm below.

From Reuters

He was a one-man circus: A tightrope walker and a clown.

From Washington Post

He appeared on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” where he ate Twinkies, made jokes about Mr. bin Laden and called himself a “tightrope walker.”

From New York Times