Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An acrobat who performs in the air, as on a trapeze or tightrope.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An aërial navigator; one skilled in aëronautics.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an athlete who performs acts high above the ground on a trapeze or high wire, requiring skill and agility and coordination.
- noun Slang a burglar who gains entrance to buildings from the rooftop, sometimes leaping from building to building in the process. A type of second-story man.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
acrobat performing high off the ground, defying a fall to earth, as on atrapeze or atightrope .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze)
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Examples
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Deadman, known as aerialist Boston Brand before Rama Kushna a character lifted from Hinduism's divine spirit
Wired Top Stories Scott Thill 2011
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I think I'm doing this series of posts on images of trapeze artists/tightrope walkers because the word "aerialist" is so cool.
Lucas Gonze's blog 2010
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By the time last week's incident unfolded - in which dancer/aerialist Christopher Tierney fell when his harness malfunctioned -- the perfect storm for a moral panic had been set.
Barbie Zelizer: Let Broadway's Spider Man Finish What It Started Barbie Zelizer 2011
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In 2009, director James Marsh won an Academy Award for "Man on Wire," which told the story of Philippe Petit, an anti-authoritarian aerialist who in 1974 walked from one Twin Tower to the other on a tightrope.
The Short List 2011
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By the time last week's incident unfolded - in which dancer/aerialist Christopher Tierney fell when his harness malfunctioned -- the perfect storm for a moral panic had been set.
Barbie Zelizer: Let Broadway's Spider Man Finish What It Started Barbie Zelizer 2011
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Now, while it seems forever when you are in the air, an aerialist is actually airborne for about three seconds -- as compared to the top basketball players, who are airborne for one.
Nikki Stone: Focus: A Lesson Learned in Front of the World Nikki Stone 2011
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The musical has also incurred citations for labor safety violations after several performers were injured on set last year; one aerialist was hospitalized for serious injuries after a reported 30-foot fall.
'SPIDER-MAN' SPINS NEW COURSE: New creative team, summer opening announced [UPDATED] 2011
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By the time last week's incident unfolded - in which dancer/aerialist Christopher Tierney fell when his harness malfunctioned -- the perfect storm for a moral panic had been set.
Barbie Zelizer: Let Broadway's Spider Man Finish What It Started Barbie Zelizer 2011
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The hula hooper was named Aerial Emery—her mother was an aerialist, she said, and that's how she got her name—and she is currently majoring in hula hooping at clown college in Quebec.
Paradise in White and Blue Marshall Heyman 2011
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That woman was Lina Tcherjazova, an extremely talented aerialist from Uzbekistan.
Nikki Stone: Focus: A Lesson Learned in Front of the World Nikki Stone 2011
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