acrobat

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Do they not bore us with the haute ecole, and weary us with Shakespearean clowns?--Still, at least, they give us acrobats, and the acrobat is an artist.

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  1. noun One who is skilled in feats of balance and agility in gymnastics.
  2. noun One who changes one's viewpoint on short notice in response to the circumstances.

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  • An acrobat, a cell, some self-replicating machines, a ball and a hat-wearing man with a beak will be the stars of the eleventh annual Independent Games Festival, as their games are now the official finalists for the $20,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize. —  Snackbar Games
  • She apparently has no interest in proving herself as a vocalist; Pink is a better acrobat, and her old friend Justin Timberlake is a far better dancer.
  • In "Le Funambule," the acrobat is in perpetual movement between retiring and glory, shadow and light, evil and good, appearance and reality. —  The Daily Star > News Feed
  • While kids and parents watched the grand finale of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus Thursday night, a Chinese acrobat was injured after taking a dramatic fall inside the Comcast Arena in Everett. —  HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
  • Coraline's button-eyed alterna-universe, life is a nonstop carnival, where Coraline's work-obsessed writer parents are transformed into a pair of gregarious playmates, while her upstairs and downstairs neighbors-an 8-foot-tall Russian circus acrobat (Ian McShane) and a pair of spinster chorus girls (the immortal British comedy duo of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders) - are restored to their youthful glory. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
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  1. French acrobate, from Greek akrobatēs : akros, high; see acro- + bainein, bat-, to walk; see gwā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French acrobate = Spanish acróbato = Portuguese Italian acrobata (cf. New Latin Acrobates), from Greek ἀκρόβτος, walking on tiptoe, also going to the top, from ἂκρον, the highest point, top, summit, neuter of ἂκρος, highest, topmost, + βατός, verbal adjective from βαίνειν, go, = English come, q. v.
 

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