Significados de equilibrist em inglês

Besides her chief accomplishment she possessed wonderful strength and was a skilled equilibrist.

He was laboring over a gigantic treadmill, balancing like an equilibrist upon a revolving sphere.

Mr. Cady greeted Bob with listless enthusiasm, teetering the while upon his cane like a Japanese equilibrist.

Nor do I see my way clear in providing for the steeple-climber, the equilibrist, the railroad president, or the tea-taster.

Sometimes the subjects lean backward with all the grace of a perfect equilibrist, freeing themselves from the ordinary mechanical laws.

Or merely a feint to thrill us?-thefeint of an equilibrist so secure that he can pretend to lose his balance?

At that time I was a contortionist and they called me the Snake-Man; then I became an equilibrist and adopted the name of Don Alonso.

Next comes the trained elephant, the terror of our mousmes, the equilibrists, the menagerie.

Antique medals showing equilibrists making the ascent of an inclined cord have been found.

Joyous jugglers, acrobatic artists, constrictorial contortionists, exquisite equilibrists, in their marvellous, mysterious, unparalleled performances.

But it must be confessed that the Japanese are the first equilibrists in the world.

The Greeks had a particular passion for equilibrists, and called them "neurobates," "oribates," and "staenobates."

Another class of equilibrists are those who maintain the upright position resting on their heads with their feet in the air.

The performance was much like all acrobatic displays; but it must be confessed that the Japanese are the first equilibrists in the world.