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a person who turns the fear of dropping into a paid skill
means A person who keeps several objects in continuous motion through the air by tossing and catching them, or more broadly anyone skilled at managing many tasks or demands at once.
from From the Latin 'ioculator,' meaning a jester or joker, built on 'iocus,' a joke or jest — the same root that gives us 'joke' and 'jocular.' It reached English through Old French 'jogleor,' and early on a juggler was an entertainer of all sorts: a minstrel, a trickster, a teller of tales. Only later did the word narrow to the specific feat of throwing things and catching them, though the older sense lingers in the faint suspicion that a 'juggler' might also be pulling a fast one on you.
- world record
- eleven balls juggled for a few breathless throws
- math field
- juggling spawned its own notation, siteswap
- ancient art
- Egyptian tomb walls show jugglers 4,000 years ago
- brain boost
- learning to juggle grows gray matter, scans confirm
- gravity tax
- every pattern is a controlled, repeated fall
anthony gatto — world record holder for 12-ball juggling cascade, performed professionally since age 5
enrico rastelli — italian juggler (1896-1931) who juggled 10 balls and pioneered modern juggling techniques
michael moschen — american juggler who performed in cirque du soleil and created innovative three-ball techniques in the 1980s