three-ring circus

1. 1.

   a circus with simultaneous performances in three rings

   Broadercircus

Questions about three-ring circus

What does three-ring circus mean?

three-ring circus means "a circus with simultaneous performances in three rings".

Is three-ring circus a common word?

three-ring circus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.