Editing Trapeze

|image=[[File:SM3DW Trapeze.jpg|x200px]]<br>Screenshot from ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]''

'''Trapezes''', originally known as '''swings''', are platforming objects in the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]] used to swing across [[pit]]s, similarly to [[rope]]s in other ''Super Mario'' games. The player characters grips a trapeze's bar on contact. Flicking the control stick left and right causes the character to swing the trapeze and build momentum. Letting go at the apex propels the character farther than they would have otherwise.

 

Trapezes are mechanically similar to [[wire|bar]]s and are comparable to the [[Swing (Super Mario Sunshine)|wooden swing]]s in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]''.

 

Swings (recognized as "trapezes" in the [[Prima Games]] guidebook)<ref>{{cite|author=Black, Fletcher|isbn=978-0-7615-5713-5|title=''Super Mario Galaxy: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|format=Collector's Edition|location=Roseville|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|date=2007|page=62}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=Browne, Catherine|title=''Super Mario Galaxy 2: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|location=Roseville|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|date=2010|page=101, 103, 170, 212, 213|isbn=978-0-30746-907-6}}</ref> are introduced in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. They resemble a green bar with flowers at opposite ends, and are suspended by [[vine]]s. They only appear in [[Galaxy|galaxies]] with naturalistic terrain, starting with the [[Honeyhive Galaxy]]. The first one is near the player's starting position, suspended a little above ground. Falling from this swing is not detrimental to the player's progress. In "[[Trouble on the Tower]]", another trapeze occurs well above the ground and is needed to traverse between platforms. Slipping from this one does not make [[Mario]] (or [[Luigi]]) lose a life, but it does necessitate climbing the tower again. Another swing appears in the [[Beach Bowl Galaxy]], hanging from a palm tree. Letting go at the highest arc of a swing rewards Mario with a [[1-Up Mushroom]] before falling into the [[water]]. In the [[Gold Leaf Galaxy]], a swing tosses Mario into a [[Sling Star]] needed to reach distant terrain. Another one suspended well above ground during "[[Purple Coins in the Woods]]" is required to reach two [[Purple Coin]]s.

Swings function similarly to the [[vine]] in the Beach Bowl Galaxy, and even more so to the [[wire|horizontal bar]]s found in the [[Deep Dark Galaxy]].

In ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]'' and [[Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury|its Nintendo Switch port]], trapezes are introduced in [[Tricky Trapeze Theater]] and later used in [[Rainbow Run (level)|Rainbow Run]], usually found alongside [[seesaw]]s in the former or [[Turning Floor]]s in the latter. Each trapeze consists of a long horizontal white bar hanging from a brass pole by five solid glowing beams. The colors of the beams constantly cycle between colors, creating a rainbow effect. Trapezes can be found in variable lengths. When they are not being used, they sway back and forth on their own at varying speeds.

|Jpn=ブランコ<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors|title=『[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック]]』|language=ja|location=Tokyo|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|date=2015|page=137, 171, 233}}</ref>

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|JpnM=Swing

|Chi=鞦韆<ref name=theater>In-game name for [[Tricky Trapeze Theater]].</ref>

|Dut=Trapeze<ref name=theater/>

|Fre=Balançoire

|Fre2=Trapèze<ref name=theater/>

|Kor=그네<ref name=theater/>

|Por=Trapézio<ref name=theater/>

|Spa=Trapecio<ref name=theater/>