WordNet
n. an acrobat who performs acrobatic feats in a circus
Usage examples of "circus acrobat".
He came down as a circus acrobat, swinging lithely from branch to branch, ending with a triple somersault that landed him right where Storm had indicated.
He curled in a ball as he fell and wrapped his arms about his head and for a moment he thought it was going to work, that he would pass under the horse like a circus acrobat and come up unharmed on the other side.
Oy dangled from his left hand like a circus acrobat, staring up with his gold-ringed eyes, and Jake could now see his own blood flowing along the sides of the bumbler's head in thin streams.
His OSS training had been wide-ranging and intensive but no one had ever thought it necessary that they should master the techniques of a high-wire circus acrobat.
It is at best a government of compromise, with Churchill riding two horses like a circus acrobat.
Inside Kathleen, I thought, was an infant hanging upside down in her womb, like a circus acrobat.