tightrope

See also: tight-rope and tight rope

English

Artist on a unicycle, on a tightrope.

Alternative forms

Etymology

tight +‎ rope

Noun

tightrope (plural tightropes)

A tightly stretched rope or cable on which acrobats perform high above the ground.
(figuratively) a difficult or desperate situation.

Hyponyms

high wire / highwire
low-wire / low wire

Coordinate terms

slackline

Derived terms

Translations

tightly stretched rope or cable on which acrobats perform high above the ground

Bulgarian: опънато въже n (opǎnato vǎže)
Catalan: corda fluixa f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鋼絲／钢丝 (zh) (gāngsī)
Finnish: nuora (fi)
French: corde raide (fr) f
German: Drahtseil (de) n
Greek: σχοινοβασία (el) f (schoinovasía)
Hungarian: (kifeszített/cirkuszi) (drót)kötél
Latin: fūnis rectus m
Polish: lina (pl) f
Portuguese: corda bamba f
Swedish: lina (sv) c
Welsh: rhaff dyn f, rhaff uchel f

Verb

tightrope (third-person singular simple present tightropes, present participle tightroping, simple past and past participle tightroped)

To walk on a tightrope

Derived terms

tightroper

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