acrobat
US/ˈæk.ɹə.bæt/
acrobat noun: an athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.
Noun
acrobat (plural acrobats)
- An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.
Verb
acrobat (third-person singular simple present acrobats, present participle acrobating, simple past and past participle acrobated)
- To practise acrobatics.
- Tumbling is different from posturing, and means throwing summersets and walking on your hands; and acrobating means the two together […]1861, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 3, London: Griffin, Bohn, page 98
- They seem to think as clowning and acrobating is a downright paradise, and comes as naturally to anybody as the measles.1882, “Floey and the Angels”, in The Quiver, volume 17, page 31
- To move like an acrobat (with agility, balance, long leaps, etc.).
- We have known […] veteran reporters, so dumbfounded and confounded by the first fire of Ralph, and his grand and lofty acrobating in elocution, that they up, seized their hat and paper, and sloped, horrified at the prospect of an attempt to “take down” Mr. Emerson.1856, Jonathan F. Kelley, “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, in Humors of Falconbridge,, Philadelphia: T.B.Peterson, page 155
- […] I laughed at the very idea of one of those heavy-pouched, blue-clad fellows catching hold of an agile fellow like I was, who had on more than one occasion acrobated from the engine’s tender back to the rear end of the caboose, by swinging and vaulting from truck to truck, underneath long...1912, Leon Ray Livingston, chapter 2, in The Curse of Tramp Life, Cambridge: Springs, PA: The A-N. 1 Publishing Co, page 17
acrobat meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
acrobat in Hindi
- athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination
- कलाबाज़ kalābāz
acrobat in Tamil
- கரணம் போடுவோன், கழைக்கூத்தாடி
acrobat in Marathi
- athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination
- डोंबारी ḍombārī
acrobat in Urdu
- بازی گر, نٹ, قلاباز
More languagesFewer languages
- acrobat in Bengali
- মল্ল, মত পরিবর্তনকারী, দড়াবাজিকর, ব্যায়ামবিদ
- acrobat in Malayalam
- അഭ്യാസി, ഞാണിന്മേൽക്കളിക്കാരൻ
- acrobat in Kannada
- ಕೊಲ್ಲಟಿ, ಕೊಲ್ಲಟಿಗ, ದೊಂಬ, ಗಳೆಕಾರ
- acrobat in Punjabi
- ਬਾਜ਼ੀਗਰ bāzīgar, ਨਟ naṭ
- acrobat in Gujarati
- કળાબાજ઼ kaḷābāz
- acrobat in Sanskrit
- जायाजीव jāyājīva
- acrobat in Tagalog
- akrobata, sirkero, magsisirko
- acrobat in Arabic
- بَهْلَوَان bahlawān
- acrobat in Persian
- بندباز bandbâz
- acrobat in Thai
- นักโลดโผน nák-lôot-pǒon
Examples of acrobat in a sentence
- Mother was teaching me the tight-rope; I’d learned a bit of acrobating, too.1914, Owen Johnson, chapter 21, in The Salamander, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 317:
- The others were fairly hulking teenagers in terrible costumes and makeup, who tapped, acrobated, sang, recited, played saxoophones, and did bad magic […]1988, Phyllis Newman, chapter 2, in Just In Time, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 32:
- He acrobated into a shirt, pulled up the pants of his good suit, arching to draw them high […]1952, Bernard Malamud, “Pre-Game”, in The Natural, New York: Dell, published 1965, page 8:
- the blood-red cardinal acrobating about in his holly bush2011, Bradford Morrow, “Gardener of Heart”, in The Uninnocent,, New York: Pegasus Books, page 31:
Forms of acrobat
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | acrobats |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | acrobats |
| present participle | acrobating |
| past participle | acrobated |
| past | acrobated |
Origin of acrobat
From French acrobate, from Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs, “walking on tiptoe, climbing aloft”), from ἀκροβατέω (akrobatéō, “to walk on tiptoe”), from ἄκρον (ákron, “highest or farthest point, mountain top, peak”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to walk, step”).
Words formed from acrobat
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Questions about acrobat
- What does acrobat mean?
- Acrobat means an athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.
- What is acrobat in Hindi?
- Acrobat in Hindi is कलाबाज़ (kalābāz). See Acrobat meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use acrobat in a sentence?
- Mother was teaching me the tight-rope; I’d learned a bit of acrobating, too.
- What part of speech is acrobat?
- Acrobat can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce acrobat?
- Acrobat is pronounced /ˈæk.ɹə.bæt/ (US).
- What is the plural of acrobat?
- The plural of acrobat is acrobats.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: acrobat (page history and authors); acrobat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acrobat (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acrobat (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acrobat (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acrobat (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਨਟ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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