acrobating

Verb

acrobat (third-person singular simple present acrobats, present participle acrobating, simple past and past participle acrobated)

1. 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
2. (figuratively) 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

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