tightrope walking

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   walking on a tightrope or slack rope

   Synonymsfunambulism

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Questions about tightrope walking

What does tightrope walking mean?

tightrope walking means "walking on a tightrope or slack rope".

What is another word for tightrope walking?

Close synonyms include funambulism. 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 walking a common word?

tightrope walking 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.