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wirework

[wahyuhr-wurk] / ˈwaɪərˌwɜrk /
NOUN
wiring
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Because the show involves wirework and understage lifts, it was easier to construct a custom space than it would have been to use an existing West End theater.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2025

I did a lot of wirework and fight sequences.

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2019

We'd start the sequence with the wirework and go straight into a whole fight, which makes it more challenging; we can't do one move, cut and pick up again.

From The Guardian • May 11, 2013

Choreographed by the film martial-arts veteran Sammo Hung, the fights are spectacularly designed and performed, relying more on muscle and skill than wirework.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2011

A large wirework aviary is filled with fifty specimens of tropical birds with pretty plumage and names hard to pronounce.

From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Goodman, Walter