The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TRAPEZE
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More clues leading to the result TRAPEZE
- Role reversal facility it's said high flyer may depend on
- Hang on here: this is part of a circus act
- Swing music introduced by kid on the radio
- Gin and drugs reported in swingers’ bar
- Role reversed with ease, we hear, in swingers' bar
- At sea, repeat securing unknown yachtsman’s harness
- Zulu in repeat broadcast in bar
- Bar used by swingers
- Fluency in speech after gin in swinging bar
- On the gin, read out letters in swinging bar
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The straight part
We know that "Bar used by swingers" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case bar used by swingers = trapeze.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TRAPEZE mean?
TRAPEZE noun- A trapezium.
- A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; — used by gymnasts.
- The trapezium bone.
- To swing on a trapeze