Acrobatic feats without and on the rope.
1786. Surprizing feats of Lofty Tumbling by a Groupe of Performers from Sadlers Wells.—Advt., Maryland Journal, Oct. 22.
1796. “Ground and Lofty Tumbling” at the Pantheon, Philadelphia.—Advt., Gazette of the U.S., Nov. 19.
1799. “Ground and Lofty Tumbling.”—Advt., The Aurora, Phila., Feb. 12.
1806. The whole will conclude with … ground tumbling, bottle-breaking, and drawbacks, accompanied with a red eye and head ache.—Mass. Spy, Aug. 27.
1834. There was a rip-roaring sight of slight o’ hand and tumblin work there, besides that ground and lofty tumbling they had in the handbills.—Caruthers, ‘The Kentuckian in New-York,’ i. 62.
1839. I have no highland fling to throw off, no ground and lofty tumbling with which to amuse.—Mr. Roane of Virginia in the U.S. Senate, Feb. 15: Cong. Globe, p. 185, App.
1845. The whole troop were engaged for some twenty minutes, in “feats of ground and lofty tumbling,” each one of which elicited torrents of applause.—W. T. Thompson, ‘Chronicles of Pineville,’ p. 26 (Phila.).
1850. [We shall see] how many Whigs will now take their turn upon the spring board, and give us an example of ground and lofty tumbling.—Mr. Giddings of Ohio, House of Repr., Aug. 12: Cong. Globe, p. 1563.
1854. This is the greatest feat of political ground-and-lofty tumbling that I have ever seen, heard, or read of.—Mr. Cullom of Tennessee, the same, April 11: id., p. 540, App.
