A formation of people in the shape of a pyramid, especially one created as part of a performance or display by successively shorter rows of people standing or kneeling on longer rows beneath them, culminating in one person at the highest point.
Origin
Late 18th century.
Definition of human pyramid in US English:
human pyramid
noun
A formation of people in the shape of a pyramid, especially one created as part of a performance or display by successively shorter rows of people standing or kneeling on longer rows beneath them, culminating in one person at the highest point.