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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
balletic
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A balletic leap from Alan Knott to dismiss Clive Lloyd.
▪ Her long willowy legs splayed outwards into a balletic second.
▪ Schoolchildren could spend days or weeks drilling for athletic and balletic displays in his honour.
▪ The lovers float through balletic lifts and dips, mimicked by other couples in the background.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
balletic

balletic \balletic\ adj. of or pertaining to ballet[1].

Wiktionary
balletic

a. Pertaining to or suitable for ballet.

WordNet
balletic

adj. characteristic of or resembling or suitable for ballet

Usage examples of "balletic".

But it's a ballsy fight-scene up there on the stage having been intricately choreographed by an Oriental guy Himself rented from some commercial studio and put up in the HmH, who ate like a bird and smiled very politely all the time and didn't have even a word to say to anybody, it seemed, except Avril, to whom the Oriental choreographer had cottoned right off balletic and full of compelling little cornerings and near-misses and reversals, and the theater's audience is rapt and clearly entertained to the gills, because they keep spontaneously applauding, as much maybe for the film's play's choreography as anything else which would make it more like spontaneously meta-applauding, Hal supposes because the whole fight-scene has to be ingeniously choreographed so that both combatants have their respectively scaly and cream-complected backs155 to the audience, for obvious reasons .

Finally he spun a balletic backkick into one dragon tattoo, his tail scything behind his head, and walked ashore, leaving his opponent bobbing gently.

I turned and saw the GTO brake, performing a skidding turn in balletic slo-mo.