A circus act or other entertainment in which knives are thrown at a target.
（马戏或其他娱乐中的）飞刀表演
Example sentencesExamples
He's the world knife-throwing champion - and he's about to throw those knives at me.
Premiering on July 10 and running for one month, the show will be featuring a variety of acrobat feats, such as contortion, knife-throwing, synchronized trapeze, and, of course, plenty of clowns.
World record knife-throwing champion Jayde Hanson was performing on ITV's This Morning show when one of his blades accidentally hit his assistant on the head.
Circus performer Jayde Hanson - who set a world knife-throwing record only days ago - left his assistant with a gashed scalp after a blade hit her.
Tarantino regular Thurman is credible as the one-woman killing machine, proving equally adept at both knife-throwing and wielding a Samurai sword.
Derivatives
knife-thrower
noun
He stopped painting and turned to the world of entertainment, working as a knife-thrower among other things.
Example sentencesExamples
This dark, rather grotesque image shows the artist's masked face surrounded by blades thrown by a circus knife-thrower.
I had imagined knife-throwers to be tall, muscular and intimidating; not petite and blue-haired.
Job seekers visiting the employment office in Ipswich found an unusual offering among the usual advertisements for waiters and nurses: a knife-thrower's assistant.
Definition of knife-throwing in US English:
knife-throwing
nounˈnīfˌTHrōiNG
A circus act or other entertainment in which knives are thrown at a target.
（马戏或其他娱乐中的）飞刀表演
Example sentencesExamples
Circus performer Jayde Hanson - who set a world knife-throwing record only days ago - left his assistant with a gashed scalp after a blade hit her.
World record knife-throwing champion Jayde Hanson was performing on ITV's This Morning show when one of his blades accidentally hit his assistant on the head.
He's the world knife-throwing champion - and he's about to throw those knives at me.
Tarantino regular Thurman is credible as the one-woman killing machine, proving equally adept at both knife-throwing and wielding a Samurai sword.
Premiering on July 10 and running for one month, the show will be featuring a variety of acrobat feats, such as contortion, knife-throwing, synchronized trapeze, and, of course, plenty of clowns.