Wallenda

[ wo-len-duh; German vah-len-dah ]

noun

1. Karl [kahrl, kah, r, l], 1905–78, German circus aerialist.

Example Sentences

In 2021, it was sold again, to a corporation that counts the famed aerialist Nik Wallenda as a minority owner, and became a bit more death-defying.

From New York Times

Nik Wallenda, the headliner, can trace his big top lineage back nearly 250 years, as can his 69-year-old mother, Delilah Wallenda, who helps him onto that wire.

From New York Times

After the intermission, Irina Akimova performs a hoop act, and Nik Wallenda and his family perform a truncated version of their famous pyramid act, in which two of them traverse the wire while balancing a third Wallenda — without nets.

From New York Times

Wallenda most famously performed in western New York in 2012, when he walked over Niagara Falls on a wire in a live televised event.

From Seattle Times

Whenever I try to undo some inadvertent disaster on my computer, I imagine that famous photo of Rose Mary Woods, the secretary in Richard Nixon’s White House who demonstrated how she “accidentally” erased 18½ minutes of Oval Office tape by stretching out her left hand and her right foot like a Flying Wallenda.

From Washington Post