Circus Skills

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Circus skills are a group of pursuits that have been used as a form of entertainment in circus, sideshow, busking or variety/vaudeville/music hall shows. Most circus skills are still being performed today; additionally, many are practiced by non-performers as a hobby.

Alphabetical list of circus skills

• Acrobatics
• Aerial silk
• Aerial straps
• Balancing
• Bullwhip
• Bungee trapeze
• Chair balancing
• Clowning
• Diabolo
• Fire dancing
• Flag spinning
• Flying trapeze
• Freestanding ladder
• Handbalancing
• Hand walking
• Hoop diving
• Hula hoop
• Human cannonball
• Human pyramid
• Juggling
• Jump rope
• Knife throwing
• Lasso
• Magic acts
• Mime
• Plate spinning
• Power tumbling
• Puppetry
• Rola bola (balance board)
• Rolling globe
• Springboard
• Stage combat
• Static trapeze
• Stilt walking
• Teeterboard
• Tightrope walking (or slackwire walking)
• Trampoline
• Trapeze
• Trick riding
• Tumbling
• Unicycle