1. a short horizontal bar hung by two ropes or chains, used by acrobats in a circus
2. a four-sided figure with one pair of parallel sides
Usage: geometry

Examples

• The acrobat swung gracefully from trapeze to trapeze high above the crowd.
• She practiced her trapeze routine for hours each day.
• The circus featured a daring trapeze act without a safety net.
• He calculated the area of the trapeze using the formula.
• The trapeze artist performed a triple somersault in midair.
• In geometry class, we learned to identify different types of trapezoids and trapezes.