circus catch
noun
: a catch (as in baseball or football) requiring an extraordinary or spectacular effort
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Cody Cappelletti opened the top of the seventh with a single, but Bailey got the next three batters on a fly ball to left, with Preston Hendry making a circus catch, and two strikeouts.
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John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2025
There was a circus catch in the outfield, the application of two of MLB’s more obscure rules and the first half of the Knicks’ Eastern Conference Finals Game 2 loss to the Indiana Pacers shown on the scoreboard during a lengthy rain delay Friday night at Citi Field, and even into Saturday morning.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 24 May 2025
The Blue Jays center fielder casually got up after the circus catch and flipped the ball back to the infield before eventually cracking a smile.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Super grippy gloves in football created a whole genre of circus catches.
—Rhett Allain, Wired News, 4 Apr. 2025
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John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2025
There was a circus catch in the outfield, the application of two of MLB’s more obscure rules and the first half of the Knicks’ Eastern Conference Finals Game 2 loss to the Indiana Pacers shown on the scoreboard during a lengthy rain delay Friday night at Citi Field, and even into Saturday morning.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 24 May 2025
The Blue Jays center fielder casually got up after the circus catch and flipped the ball back to the infield before eventually cracking a smile.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Super grippy gloves in football created a whole genre of circus catches.
—Rhett Allain, Wired News, 4 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for circus catch
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“Circus catch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/circus%20catch. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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