She was in each morning like a circus trainer to put him through his routine.

Kirstin married (2) Ken Harper, drama teacher, playwright, gymnast, and circus trainer.

I'm a scientist, not a circus trainer.

Like a circus trainer, he led the great bear to the door.

Sally had belonged to a circus trainer and could dance on her toes and rollerskate.

Hardy plays Dr. Henry Tibbett, a country doctor who is called on by a travelling circus trainer to cure his sick elephant.

I told Mama Tataba I'd grown up knowing how to cook, but not to be a circus trainer.

A variation of these techniques are also used by circus trainers to train horses and other animals, such as elephants to work in a ring for exhibition purposes.

As an aside, that is why a circus trainer must always enter the lion ring first, and in full sight of the lions.

Luckily for the circus trainer, decisions about social rank among higher animals are not always based on brute force.