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  2. Trapeze - Wikipedia

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    Flying trapeze refers to a trapeze act where a performer, or "flier," grabs the trapeze bar and jumps off a high platform, or pedestal board, so that gravity creates the swing. The swing's parts are the "force out" (sometimes called the "cast out") at the far end of the first swing, the beat back and the rise (also known as "seven") as the ...

  3. Flying trapeze - Wikipedia

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    The flying trapeze is a specific form of the trapeze in which a performer jumps from a platform with the trapeze so that gravity makes the trapeze swing. The performance was invented in 1859 by a Frenchman named Jules Léotard , who connected a bar to some ventilator cords above the swimming pool in his father's gymnasium in Toulouse , France .

  4. List of circus skills - Wikipedia

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    Circus skills are a group of disciplines that have been performed as entertainment in circus, carnival, sideshow, busking, variety, vaudeville, or music hall shows. Most circus skills are still being performed today.

  5. Static trapeze - Wikipedia

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    Static trapeze, also known as fixed trapeze, is a type of circus apparatus. In contrast to the other forms of trapeze, static trapeze the bars and ropes mainly stay in place. Most often, the static trapeze is about 2 ft (0.6 m) wide and the bar is generally 1–1.5 in (2.5–3.8 cm) inches in diameter.

  6. Flying trapeze (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A flying trapeze is a form of trapeze in which a performer jumps from a platform with the trapeze so that gravity makes the trapeze swing. Flying trapeze may also refer to: "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" (song), also known as "The Flying Trapeze" Flying Trapeeze (also spelt Trapeze), the first comedy venue in Melbourne, created in ...

  7. China to propose restoring 2020 'Phase 1' trade deal with US ...

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    Other parts of China's plan will include a pledge to not devalue the yuan, an offer to make more investments in the U.S and a commitment to reduce exports of fentanyl precursors, according to the ...

  8. Diabolo - Wikipedia

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    Trapeze/stopover: The diabolo goes under a stick and the stick touches the string, making the diabolo swing around the stick and land back on the string. Cats cradle/spiderweb: This trick starts with a trapeze. The stick not in the trapeze is inserted between the strings on either side of the stick in the trapeze.

  9. 420 (dinghy) - Wikipedia

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    The Z420 is a transformation of the Club 420. The Z420 hull is 50 pounds (23 kg) lighter and 40 percent stiffer than the C420. Whereas a C420 hull is composed of six pieces, the Z420 has only three molded components: the hull, the deck, and the mast partners. Unlike the C420, the Z420 does not include a spinnaker or trapeze in its rigging.