acrobat
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someone who can balance, jump, and turn their body in skilful ways, especially as a form of entertainment
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someone who can balance, jump, and turn their body in skilful ways, especially as a form of entertainment
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a singer, band, or other person or group who performs on stage. Two people who perform together, especially two comedians, are called a double act
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a performer in a circus who wears funny clothes and makes people laugh by doing silly things
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someone whose job is to entertain people by telling jokes and stories to make them laugh
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someone who performs magic tricks as entertainment, especially tricks using quick hand movements. This is called conjuring.
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someone who twists their body into unusual shapes or positions as a way of entertaining people
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two people who perform together, especially two entertainers, or a performance by these two people
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someone who entertains audiences by escaping from ropes, chains, boxes etc. This form of entertainment is called escapology.
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an entertainer who does tricks with fire, including putting burning sticks into their mouth
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a Japanese woman whose job is to entertain men by singing, dancing, playing music, and making conversation
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someone, especially an entertainer, who dresses and behaves like a person of the opposite sex
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the main performer in a show or at an event, whose name is used to attract people to come to listen or watch
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someone who impersonates someone else in order to make people laugh, especially as a job
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an entertainer who makes people laugh by copying the way that famous people talk or behave
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someone who performs a piece of music, a part in a play etc in a way that shows how they understand or feel about it
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a white entertainer during the 19th and early 20th centuries who copied the appearance and singing of black people
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a character in pantomime that looks like a silly horse and is played by two people inside a costume
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someone who tells stories in a funny and interesting way. The more usual word for this is a storyteller.
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someone such as an entertainer or politician who does things in a lively and enthusiastic way that attracts attention
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someone whose job is to stand in front of an audience and entertain them by telling jokes
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an entertainer whose job is to say or do things that allow another entertainer to be funny
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in Spain or Latin America, someone whose job is to entertain people by fighting a bull, especially while riding a horse
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one of the poets and singers who travelled around southern France and northern Italy in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries
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an entertainer who can speak without moving his or her lips, especially one who makes a model, person, or animal appear to talk
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