: An adjective relating to the circus? I'm looking for an adjective which essentially means "of or relating to the circus." My context is: As they stood in the doorway, taking in the circus-like

I'm looking for an adjective which essentially means "of or relating to the circus." My context is:

As they stood in the doorway, taking in the circus-like activities around them...

But "circus-like" is garbage, can anyone suggest a good adjective to use in its place? Alternatively, I could replace the entire described noun ("circus-like activities") with something better. I suppose I could just called it a "circus" directly, which will probably be my fall back.

I'm not entirely oppose to making up words, but it would need to be easily comprehensible to the reader. I was thinking something like "circusian" or "circusean".

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"Circensian" is a word, which means "of or relating to the Circus in ancient Rome", so you could potentially consider using that, but it likely doesn't really fit.

Since this is Writers.SE, however, I would fall back to Stephen King's comment that â€œThe road to hell is paved with adjectives.â€ Why not simply describe the activities that are occuring around them? "circus-activities" is so incredibly broad that it's boring and meangingless. It's difficult to say really without knowing the full context of the sentence, but I suspect that describing the action would be a better option. There are jugglers, freaks, unicyclists, clowns, ring masters, men of strength, bearded ladies ... use the imagination, and make your text richer through showing.

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