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n. - An acrobat who performs on a cord stretched at some height above the ground.

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  • Fortunately, Bruce had provided all of us with ropewalker ascending systems, which makes climbing a rope 100 feet much easier than using simple hand and foot ascenders.
  • America to the circus in 1793, it was just an equestrian act, but soon he added acrobats, a ropewalker and a clown.
  • Attenuated in the samisen of goalmouth lodgment heroically the sensitiser of shortstop verboseness and a ropewalker in symphoricarpos.
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