Definitions for trapezes

trapezes tra·peze

Spelling: [tra-peez or, esp. British, truh-]
IPA: /træˈpiz or, esp. British, trə-/

Trapezes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 325 anagrams from letters in trapezes (aeeprstz).

Definitions for trapezes

noun

  1. an apparatus, used in gymnastics and acrobatics, consisting of a short horizontal bar attached to the ends of two suspended ropes.
  2. (on a small sailboat) a device by which a crew member can be suspended almost completely outboard while hiking.

Origin of trapezes

1860-65; French, special use of trapèze trapezium

Examples for trapezes

trapeze artists and those shot out of cannonballs would fall to their death.

Then you don't think any the worse of me because I am a trapeze performer.

She was fond of daring feats on the trapeze, and had to be checked in her indulgence in them.

For a hot minute, we had Mayor Bloomberg in a trapeze, but we lost him.

trapeze tragedy The St. Louis trapeze Incident occurred in 1872.

Whether he is insinuating himself into a juggling routine or flubbing a trapeze act, he clearly has those skills in his toolkit.

"I was glad of the chance to see what I could do on the trapeze," he said.

But he was bound to relieve his feelings somehow, and the trapeze was just what he wanted.

Freed from her guitar, but wearing counterintuitive pumps, she leaned back like a trapeze artist.

The soldier tried to get up to me by means of the trapeze and the gymnasium rope.

Word Value for trapezes
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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