trapeze

noun

1. (archaic)A trapezium.
2. A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.
3. The trapezium bone.

   “[…] the distance between the top of the flexor retinaculum and an imaginary line drawn between the trapeze and the hamate.”

4. A certain yo-yo trick.

   “I begin a roller-coaster trick by throwing a trapeze, making the yo-yo loop around the finger of my left hand and then land back on the string.”

verb

1. To swing on or as on a trapeze.

name

1. A mountain on the Courbet Peninsula, Grande Terre, Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.