tightrope walking

Definitions

1. 1

   The acrobatic feat of walking on a tightrope.

   • Most of the novelties, including the aerial jumpings and the tightrope walkings, had been tapering off in preparation for this exciting final event.
   • The extant verses deal with the usual subject of love, cup-bearers, songs, dances, music; there is no shortage of tightrope walkings, virtuosity and artificiality typical of Arab poetry.
2. 2

   present participle and gerund of tightrope walk

   • Mary Ann could witness the intricacies, the pitfalls, and the tightrope walkings of marriage, and even handle them, but not Michael.
   • I have failed to find a single article in your newspaper about the "tightrope walking" that the Swiss were forced to perform between the Allies and the Nazis in order to survive as a country and avoid invasion.

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