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ACROBAT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("acrobat" is a kind of...):

athlete; jock (a person trained to compete in sports)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acrobat"):

aerialist (an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze))

balancer (an acrobat who balances himself in difficult positions)

circus acrobat (an acrobat who performs acrobatic feats in a circus)

contortionist (an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions)

funambulist; tightrope walker (an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope)

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