tightrope

See also: tight-rope and tight rope

English

Artist on a unicycle, on a tightrope.

Alternative forms

• tight-rope
• tight rope

Etymology

From tight +‎ rope.

Pronunciation

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Noun

tightrope (plural tightropes)

1. A tightly stretched rope or cable on which acrobats perform high above the ground.
2. (figuratively) a difficult or desperate situation.

Hyponyms

• high wire / highwire
• low-wire / low wire

Coordinate terms

• slackline

Derived terms

• tightroper
• tightrope walker
• tightrope walking
• walk a tightrope

Translations

tightly stretched rope or cable on which acrobats perform high above the ground

• Bulgarian: опънато въже n (opǎnato vǎže)
• Catalan: corda fluixa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鋼絲 / 钢丝 (zh) (gāngsī)

• Finnish: nuora (fi)
• French: corde raide (fr) f
• German: Drahtseil (de) n
• Greek: σχοινοβασία (el) f (schoinovasía)
• Hungarian: (kifeszített/cirkuszi) (drót)kötél
• Latin: fūnis rectus m
• Polish: lina (pl) f
• Portuguese: corda bamba f
• Swedish: lina (sv) c
• Welsh: rhaff dyn f, rhaff uchel f

Verb

tightrope (third-person singular simple present tightropes, present participle tightroping, simple past and past participle tightroped)

1. To walk on a tightrope

Derived terms

• tightroper