A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent.

To take part in a circus; or to be displayed as if in a circus

(military, aviation, obsolete) A WWI German fighter wing. / (archaic) A barnstorming troop.

A circus sideshow attraction in which fleas are attached (or appear to be attached) to miniature carts and other items, and encouraged to perform circus acts within a small housing.

(finance, slang, historical) Traders in South African mining shares.

plural of circus freak

A freak of nature, a biological rarity, especially one that is exhibited in a freak show.

plural of circus act

A performance typical of a circus, such as tightrope walking or fire eating. / Anything absurd or convoluted; a rigmarole.

Alternative form of circusgoer