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Tightrope walking is a spectacle activity usually performed for the amusement of an audience. It involves a performer who walks along a thin wire or rope usually from a great height. The "tightrope walker" may sometimes use a pole to aid in balancing while walking the rope. For heightened drama, the walker may perform the feat without the precaution of a safety net. A tightrope walking act is common for circuses.
Sometimes tightrope walking may be performed as a publicity stunt.
Closely Related Subjects
- Highwire
- Tightwire
- Slackwire
- Skywalk
- funambule (french)
Famous tightrope artists
- Blondin, a.k.a. Jean-François Gravelet, who wire-walked across Niagara Falls many times
- Phillippe Petit who walked between the towers of the former World Trade Center in New York City
- Jade Kindar-Martin and Didier Pasquette, highwire walkers, most notable for their world-record setting skywalk over the River Thames in London
- the Flying Wallendas, famous for their seven- and eight-person pyramid wire-walks
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