a rope or wire stretched tightly high above the ground, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing: [as modifier]:a tightrope walker figurativehe continues to walk a tightrope between success and failure
verb
[no object]
walk or perform on a tightrope:the man who tightroped across Niagara Falls
tightrope in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of tightrope in the US English dictionary
