Stephen Colbert

The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.

American Comedian

Drew Houston

Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research.

American Businessman

Preston Sturges

The hook is a word or an idea spoken by one character which gives the next character something to hook onto when he responds or, like a trapeze artist, gives him something to swing from on his way to another point of view.

American Writer

Neon Hitch

I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that was my dream. We just traveled the whole world, me and my mom and my little brothers and sisters. It was an adventure.

British Musician

Celia Imrie

Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

British Actress

Natalia Tena

I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.

American Actress

Orson Welles

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

American Actor

Neil Patrick Harris

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

Keala Settle

I never got to see the circus... I was always in love with being a trapeze artist, though.

Bridget Marquardt

Trapeze is a great workout. It got me in the best shape in my life.

The word 'trapeze' in a circus context usually involves spectacular acrobatic stunts.

Acrobatic Equipment

Trapeze acts in the circus are performed with safety nets or harnesses due to dangerous heights.

Safety Measures

Trapeze performances are iconic in the circus world, evoking wonder and danger.

Cultural Icon

The trapeze in gymnastics is used for a variety of exercises that demand strength and skill.

Gymnastics Apparatus

It's a tool for developing upper body strength and control in gymnastics.

Training Tool

Trapeze workout in gymnastics helps improve coordination and confidence for other apparatus.

Gymnastic Skills

In sailing, the trapeze refers to a specific sail part, different from the gymnastic or circus equipment.

Sailing Component

The trapeze sail is used to improve a boat's performance by catching additional wind.

Enhanced Speed

Trapeze in nautical terms won't be understood outside sailing contexts.

Specific Terminology

In biking, a trapeze refers to the support structure for the saddle, holding it in place.

Bicycle Support

When talking about bikes, 'trapeze' has a technical meaning and is not about performing arts.

Technical Context

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Emily Ainsworth: Inside...

 He climbed up a small tree next to this giant Redwood, and then he leaped through space and grabbed a branch with his hands, and ended up hanging, like catching a bar of a trapeze. And then, from there, he climbed directly up the bark until he got to the top of the tree.

Richard Preston:...

 a leaf the inner part of the year and you see the gray on the legs which makes them look very unique and like all the other antelopes the Sesame's have more uniformity on the colors like the trapeze because you can see the dark brown the light brown and they are the

Safari Live - Day 261 PIPE...

 gazelles the harvest and the Fosters I would say antelopes we got around here so many times you see the a twist together with a trapeze and strange just to see him alone there eating you might see one top like that but Joanne look at the harvest in

Safari Live - Day 210 PIPE...

 The more I help teenagers understand sexual consent, the more I realize learning aerial can help us navigate life on the ground. So let me explain what I mean by teaching consent through circus. Let's imagine it's your first time on a trapeze.

An aerialist on...

 teach the psychological state but you can absolutely teach tightwire walking anyone can walk a tight wire and when did this begin in your life when I was in high school I want a vacation and they had a flying trapeze sir and when I

It Was Med School or the...

 While regaling you with daring stories from her youth, it might be hard to believe your grandmother used to be a trapeze artist. However, the bad backs, elbow pain, and creaky knees so common in older people

Why haven’t we cured...

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Circus Performer PIPE Great...

 instruction booklet on how to set these things up so all of this creates a challenge that pushed it into a realm that we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into a trapeze man would take

Climbing: Safety Third PIPE...

 once the grass is burnt it's intense our cylinder is come fresh grass shoots up and it tends to attract a lot of game and you know zebras trapeze buffalos in that particular area