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trapeze¹

  • /tɹəˈpiːz/ UK

Rhymes with -iːz

Where it comes from

From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium. Doublet of trapezium.

noun trapezes

  1. A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists. He's free as a breeze He's always at ease He lives in the jungle And hangs by his knees As he swings through trees Without a trapeze In his BVD's.
  2. archaic A trapezium.
  3. The trapezium bone. […] the distance between the top of the flexor retinaculum and an imaginary line drawn between the trapeze and the hamate.
  4. A certain yo-yo trick. I begin a roller-coaster trick by throwing a trapeze, making the yo-yo loop around the finger of my left hand and then land back on the string.

verb trapezes · trapezing · trapezed

  1. To swing on or as on a trapeze.

Trapeze²

Where it comes from

From trapèze - French for trapezium, named so by Edgar Aubert de la Rüe due to the mountain's shape.

proper noun

  1. A mountain on the Courbet Peninsula, Grande Terre, Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.

Translations

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noun swinging horizontal bar

Españoltrapecio
日本語空中ブランコ kūchūburanko
Portuguêstrapézio
Françaistrapèze
DeutschTrapez
Italianotrapezio
Românătrapez
Русскийтрапе́ция trapécija
العربيةأُرْجُوحَة ʔurjūḥa

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@misc{trapeze_2026,
  title = {trapeze},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/trapeze},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}