tightrope

tightrope

See also: tight-rope and tight rope

English

Artist on a unicycle, on a tightrope.

Alternative forms

• tight-rope
• tight rope

Etymology

tight +‎ rope

Noun

tightrope (plural tightropes)

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

Hyponyms

• high wire / highwire
• low-wire / low wire

Coordinate terms

• slackline

Derived terms

• tightrope walker
• tightrope walking
• walk a tightrope

 

Translations

tightly stretched rope

Bulgarian: опънато въже n (opǎnato vǎže) Catalan: corda fluixa f Chinese: Mandarin: 鋼絲 (zh), 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 Portuguese: corda bamba f Swedish: lina (sv) c Welsh: rhaff dyn f, rhaff uchel f