List of circus skills

Circus skills are a group of disciplines that have been performed as entertainment in circus, carnival, sideshow, busking, variety, vaudeville, or music hall shows. Most circus skills are still being performed today. Many are also practiced by non-performers as a hobby. Circus schools and instructors use various systems of categorization to group circus skills by type. Systems that have attempted to formally organize circus skills into pragmatic teaching groupings include the Gurevich system (the basis of the Russian Circus School's curriculum) and the Hovey Burgess system. Acrobalance Acrobatics Acro dance Adagio Aerial hoop Aerial silk Aerial straps Artistic cycling Balancing Banquine Baton twirling Buffoonery Bullwhip Bungee trapeze Cannonball catching Carnival barking Chair balancing Chinese pole Cigar box juggling Cloud swing Clowning Club swinging Contact juggling Contortion Corde lisse Cradle Cyr wheel Danish pole Devil sticks Diabolo or Chinese yo-yo Double trapeze Fire performance Flag spinning Flying trapeze Foot juggling Freestanding ladder German wheel Globe of death Hair hang Hand to hand Hand balancing Hand walking Hat manipulation Hoop diving Hooping "Human" cannonball Human pyramid Juggling Jump rope Knife throwing Lasso "Lion taming" Mexican cloud swing Mime Multiple trapeze Object manipulation Perch (equilibristic) Physical comedy Plate spinning Pogo sticking Poi spinning Puppetry Rebound straps Ringmaster Risley Rola bola, balance board Rolling globe Roman ladders Russian bar Russian swing Slacklining Slackwire balancing Spanish web Springboard Stage combat Static trapeze Stilt walking Teeterboard Tightrope walking Trampolining Trapeze Trick riding Trick roping Tumbling Twirling Unicycle Ventriloquism Voltige Wall of death Wheel of Death Whistling Bed of nails Bee bearding Blade box Body modification Body piercing Chapeaugraphy Contortion Electric act Entomophagy (insect eating) Escapology Fire breathing Fire eating Girl to Gorilla, a Pepper's Ghost illusion Glass eating Glass walking Gurner Ho