Trapeze

Definitions

1. A trapezium.
   archaic
2. A mountain on the Courbet Peninsula, Grande Terre, Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
3. A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.
4. The trapezium bone.
5. A certain yo-yo trick.

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

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