| circus | a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals, the children always love to go to the circus |
| threeing circus | a circus with simultaneous performances in three rings |
| circus carnival | a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment, it was so funny it was a circus, the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere |
Circus
genus Circus | a genus of haws comprising the harriers |
marsh harrier
Circus Aeruginosus | Old World harrier frequenting marshy regions |
Montagu's harrier
Circus pygargus | brownish European harrier |
marsh hawk
northern harrier
hen harrier
Circus cyaneus | common harrier of North America and Europe, nests in marshes and open land |
| circus | an arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent, they used the elephants to help put up the circus |
| circus | (antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games |
circus tent
big top
round top
top | a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance, he was afraid of a fire in the circus tent, they had the big top up in less than an hour |
| rider plate | a horizontal beam (or plate) connected to the top of a ship's vertical keel or to the keelson |
| rider | a clause that is appended to a legislative bill |
| circus | a travelling company of entertainers, including trained animals, he ran away from home to join the circus |
| circus acrobat | an acrobat who performs acrobatic feats in a circus |
| cowboy rodeo rider | a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging |
| dispatch rider | a messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle) |
| freedom rider | one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation |
horseman
equestrian
horseback rider | a man skilled in equitation |
night rider
nightrider | member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War, committed acts of intimidation and revenge |
passenger
rider | a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it |
| rider | a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel) |
| rider | a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle) |
| Rough Rider | a member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War () |
Haggard
Rider Haggard
Sir Henry Rider Haggard | British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (-) |