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tightrope walking

skill involving walking on a thin wire or rope
Class type of: equilibristics Q219616

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
Circus apparatus
Subclass of
equilibristics[2]
Described by source
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[3][4]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[6]
Practiced by
tightrope walker[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en tightrope walking en funambulisme ar مشي على الحبال ar السير على الحبل ar السير على الحبل المشدود cs Chůze po laně de Neurobat de Seilakrobatik de Seiltanz de Hochseil es funambulismo fi nuorallakävely fi nuorallatanssi fr fil de fer fr Fil-de-fériste fr funambulisme he הליכה על חבל hu kötéltánc id Jultagi it funambolismo
🔖 Identifiers · 18
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85135325
GND ID
4403427-1
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Tightrope walking.jpg ↗
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300379116
BNCF Thesaurus ID
6175
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
119979702
Dewey Decimal Classification
796.46
Freebase ID
/m/02k2d7
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
funambulisme
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0110665
Harper's tag
tightrope-walking
KBpedia ID
TightropeWalking
Show all 18 identifiers +6
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007536389405171
Quora topic ID
Tightrope-Walking
Topic's main category
Category:Tightrope walking
Wellcome Collection concept ID
f9qcr9gm
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
00325804-n, 04441914-n
Yale LUX ID
concept/ab7fd261-1c33-4e12-af77-25fafc93f44d

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🔗 Connections
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Examples 1
Jultagi
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Practiced by 1
tightrope walker
Subclass of 1
equilibristics
Subtypes 1
Jultagi
Topic's main category 1
Category:Tightrope walking
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Tightrope walking
← Different from 1
ropewalk
← Field of this occupation 1
tightrope walker
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Summary

tightrope walking is a Circus apparatus[1].

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 25d ago · Jerimee · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Instance of: Circus apparatus"
  2. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'bo', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fi',
    GND ID → 4403427-1
    Sitelink count → 29
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  3. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → tightrope-walking
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: tightrope-walking, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289970328|tightrope walking (#289970328)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Har"
  4. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → equilibristics
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Instance of → Circus apparatus
    Practiced by → tightrope walker
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007536389405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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