tightrope walker

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   an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope

   Synonymsfunambulist

   Broaderacrobat

Questions about tightrope walker

What does tightrope walker mean?

tightrope walker means "an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope".

What is another word for tightrope walker?

Close synonyms include funambulist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tightrope walker a common word?

tightrope walker 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.