tightrope-walker

tightrope-walker (plural tightrope-walkers)

1. Alternative form of tightrope walker.
   • 1863 January 17, “Fatal Feat”, in The Belfast News-Letter, year CXXV, number 15,489, Belfast, →OCLC, page [4], column 2:

     Mr. Farini [i.e., William Leonard Hunt], the celebrated tightrope-walker, and rival of [Charles] Blondin, advertised that he would carry his wife across the rope stretched from one side of the ring to the other, at a height of about sixty feet, upon his back—a feat he had performed in other places.

   • 2024 June 29, Bill King, “The third weekend in June”, in Opelika-Auburn News, volume 134, number 181, Opelika, Ala.: Lee Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A9, column 2:

     We saw where the great tightrope-walker Karl Wallenda scaled the canyon on a tightrope back in 1970.

   • 2025 March 19, Ron Charles, “Colum McCann’s ‘Twist’ drags us to the depths of the ocean”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 March 2025:

     The novel, which went on to win both a National Book Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, presents several apparently disparate stories while a tightrope-walker modeled after Philippe Petit tiptoes between the twin towers on a wire.