USAGE:
"In my last year at the university, I felt like I had finally mastered walking the trapeze of my life, work, and academics."
The Centre Daily Times; Students in Rural Schools; The Centre Daily Times (Pennsylvania); Feb 6, 2005."

"walking the trapeze of my life"

link

maybe he was thinking of a high-wire act?!

Just asked my daught-in-law about the word and she called it tightwire but I also found highwire and tightrope.

I've always called them tightropes, thinking a trapeze was the hanging bar thing that an acrobat swung from.

Actually, just googled it. Wikipedia agrees with my first understanding of trapeze.

If you had clicked the link in the first post it would have given you direct evidence. Images can tell as just as much as words. ;~)

Haha that'll teach me to not bother checking links. Or it should anyway, not sure that it will. Old habits and all that.