Noun

• S: (n) musician, instrumentalist, player (someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession))
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• member holonym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) performer, performing artist (an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience)
• S: (n) actor, histrion, player, thespian, role player (a theatrical performer)
• S: (n) artiste (a public performer (a dancer or singer))
• S: (n) baton twirler, twirler (someone who twirls a baton)
• S: (n) comedian, comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)
• S: (n) cowboy, rodeo rider (a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging)
• S: (n) dancer, professional dancer, terpsichorean (a performer who dances professionally)
• S: (n) executant (a performer (usually of musical works))
• S: (n) fire-eater, fire-swallower (a performer who pretends to swallow fire)
• S: (n) fire walker (someone who walks barefoot on burning coals)
• S: (n) geek (a carnival performer who does disgusting acts)
• S: (n) headliner, star (a performer who receives prominent billing)
• S: (n) juggler (a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity)
• S: (n) magician, prestidigitator, conjurer, conjuror, illusionist (someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience)
• S: (n) minstrel (a performer in a minstrel show)
• S: (n) monologist (an entertainer who performs alone)
• S: (n) musician, instrumentalist, player (someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession))
• S: (n) puppeteer (one who operates puppets or marionettes)
• S: (n) Savoyard (a person who performs in the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan)
• S: (n) sightreader (a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music))
• S: (n) snake charmer (a performer who uses movements and music to control snakes)
• S: (n) straight man, second banana (a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian)
• S: (n) stripper, striptease artist, striptease, stripteaser, exotic dancer, ecdysiast, peeler (a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music)
• S: (n) strongman (a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus)
• S: (n) vaudevillian (a performer who works in vaudeville)
• S: (n) ventriloquist (a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy)
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) musician (artist who composes or conducts music as a profession)