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Circus Skills is a group of pursuits that were traditionally used as a form of entertainment in circus, sideshow, busking or variety/vaudeville/music hall shows. While most circus skills are still being performed today, many are practiced by non-performers as a hobby.
Prop Manipulation Circus Skills
- Balancing (circus act)
- Ball spinning
- Bullwhip
- Cigar box
- Club swinging
- Contact juggling
- Devilstick
- Diabolo
- Fire-twirling
- Flag Spinning
- Hat manipulation
- Jitter rings
- Juggling (balls, clubs, rings, etc)
- Knife throwing
- Lasso
- Plate spinning
- Poi Swinging
- Shaker Cup Manipulation
Balancing/Equilibristic Circus Skills
- Bicycle
- Chinese poles
- Danish pole
- Free standing ladder
- German wheel
- Pedal go
- Perch (Equilibristic)
- Rola Bola
- Rolling globe
- Roman Ladders
- Russian bar
- Stacking Chairs / Chair
- Stilt walking
- Teeterboard (aka "Korean board"
- Tight-rope (tight or slack rope walking)
- Unicycle
Aerial Circus Skills
- Aerial Rigging
- Bungee
- Cloud swing (Mexican cloud swing)
- Corde lisse (rope, Smooth Rope)
- Cradle
- Hair Hang (aka Hair Suspension / Hairhang / hair hanging)
- Aerial Hoop(Lyra, Circeaux)
- Rebound straps
- Russian swing
- Shoot-Thru sadder
- Silks (tissues)
- Spanish web
- Trapeze
- Wire (harness)
Acrobatic Circus Skills
- Acrobalance
- Acrobatics
- Hand balancing
- Tumbling
- Hoop diving
- Teeterboard
- Trampoline / Mini-tramp
- Contortion
- Jump rope
- Hula hoop
Clowning
Dare Devil Skills
Side Show Skills
- Working Acts
- Human oddity (Natural) Acts
- Animal Acts
- Museum shows
- Pickled punks
- Abnormal Animals
"Circus skills"