Acrobatics is feats of balance, tumbling and agility. Aerial acrobatics, learn acrobatics.
It is a discipline in its own right and the base of half of circus work. Acrobatics is also used of arguments that twist to reach a conclusion they wanted anyway.
1nounacrobaticsFeats of balance, tumbling and agility.
“The acrobatics in the second half emptied the bar.”
acrobatics is a skill.
Proto-Indo-European
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French
acrobate
English
acrobat
English, today
acrobatics
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From acrobat + -ics. acrobat comes from French acrobate. From acrobate, from ἀκροβάτης, from ἀκροβατέω (“to walk on tiptoe”), from ἄκρον (“highest or farthest point, mountain top, peak”) + βαίνω (“to walk, step”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA