ropedancer

[ rohp-dan-ser, -dahn- ]

noun

1. a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.

Other Words From

• ropedance noun
• ropedancing noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of ropedancer¹

First recorded in 1640–50; rope + dancer

Example Sentences

There were acrobats and ropedancers and knife-throwers and fire-eaters and street performers of every type.

From Literature

"Pay me what her clothes cost," cried the ropedancer at last, "and you may take her."

From Project Gutenberg

There were also "vaudeville" entertainments, with all manner of jugglers, ropedancers, acrobats, and clowns, to amuse a people who found no pleasure in the refined productions of the Greek stage.

From Project Gutenberg

With these went all who live by amusing the leisure of others, from the painter and the comic poet, down to the ropedancer and the Merry Andrew.

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But he could not find her, and it was not until the ropedancers had left the town that she came to him.

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