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acrobatic
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Word definitions for acrobatic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1848; see acrobat + -ic . Related: Acrobatically .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ an acrobatic catch EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And it was not only because it was the third time I had heard precisely how that acrobatic quartet achieved congress. ▪ Dineh used various tricks and acrobatic feats to escape ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acrobatic \Ac`ro*bat"ic\, a. [Cf. F. acrobatique.] Pertaining to an acrobat. [1913 Webster] -- Ac`ro*bat"ic*al*ly , adv.
Usage examples of acrobatic.
Chen had only a moment to nod before Bummer began performing fantastic acrobatic leaps about his soft-shod feet.
Meyerhold would have his actors trained in the techniques of the acrobatic circus, fencing, boxing, ballet and eurhythmies, gymnastics and modern dance so that they could tell a story through the supple movements of their whole bodies or even just their faces.
He knew he was out of Kelter, but he had to watch the Board, for he had put every Bean in the World on an acrobatic Industrial known as Tin Bucket Preferred.
The card showed an odalisque smoking a Turkish cigarette, in a startling acrobatic posture.
But after the dread feeling of worry and want was finally eradicated from his mind by the abolition of the individual accumulative system, he then began to apply himself carefully to physical development, and as running, jumping and acrobatic work have the best symmetrical effects upon the human form, this kind of exercise was extensively followed, and as each generation succeeded in outdoing the feats of the preceding one, the entire nation finally evolved into one of extraordinary springing propensities.
He had caught onto the ladder, of course, and its upper end was secured somewhere inside the wicker rim, and now he was doing the same acrobatic poses and contortions and convulsions that he did in the ring on his wooden ladder, and the crowd was laughing and sobbing with relief, and cheering and applauding with pleasure.
Much was required of him in a world where a high fantastical acrobatic mountebankery was almost a matter of ceremony, where riders stand on their heads in passing their rivals and cooks punt a casserole over their heads to the wall behind by way of giving notice: much was required of him and he proved worthy.
Some of the nimbler partyers had scrambled out onto the pier and formed a chain of life that reached six or seven meters into the air, an acrobatic tumble of humanity.
They could never get used to the Watusi habit of drinking animal blood, but the high jumps and acrobatic dancing of the tall, limber Africans never ceased to thrill them.
I did not have that awful experience of the early auditionthings were tamer when I broke into the circuit as an acrobatic clownbut 1 suffered terrors enough.
Oskar said a few nice things about his acrobatic clown act and complimented him on his gift for music.
Felix and Kitty climb up on the concrete roof of the pillbox and begin doing acrobatic exercises.
They swept across the sky, heading towards the northern endcap, already several hundred metres long, twisting round the lighting tube like bloated contrails from an acrobatic display team.
Betteredge said, when the anthropometrist had moved upstairs, "if you feel I was responsible, sir… For losing her, I mean—" "I believe, Betteredge, that I dispatched you earlier to a matinee, at the Garrick, to report on the acrobatic ladies of Manhattan, did I not?
Betteredge said, when the anthropometrist had moved upstairs, "if you feel I was responsible, sir For losing her, I mean" "I believe, Betteredge, that I dispatched you earlier to a matinee, at the Garrick, to report on the acrobatic ladies of Manhattan, did I not?