12 adjectives to describe acrobat

According to a legend, the daughter of Herodias was a renowned acrobat, and on a bas-relief in the Cathedral of Rouen we find this Jewish dancer turning somersaults before Herod, so as to fascinate him, and thus obtain the decapitation of John the Baptist.

Thomson Burtis (A); 28Jul58; R218646. Rex Lee, aerial acrobat.

She had been one of the most celebrated acrobats of the Circus.

That cat's what I call a genuine acrobat!"

I want Bruno to be strong, but at the same time light and activewith the figure of one of the little acrobats one sees at the circusnot "Master Tommy," who habitually gorges himself with pudding.

It would make him the greatest of mental acrobats or jugglers, and he might almost deserve as eminent a reputation as a similar class of artists in bodily achievements; possibly he might claim to be ranked with the man who cooked his dinner and ate it on a tight rope over the Niagara Rapids, or with the man who placed a pea-nut under a dish-cover and turned it into the American eagle.

Several hybrid derivations have been suggested, none of them probable, and I lean to the suggestion that the starting-point of the word may have been "jumkhana", a term which, though it is not in Forbes's Hindustani Dictionary, I have heard a native apply to a large cotton carpet, such as native acrobats, or wrestlers, might spread when about to give a performance.

Mr. Tiffles put himself into the form of an L, like a professional acrobat; and Miss Wilkeson executed a courtesy in the old, exploded style.

Within an hour the two precious documents were "signed, sealed and delivered," and Andy Wildwood entered on his career as a salaried circus acrobat.

Always accustomed to horses, and already a skilful acrobat, he was immediately accepted by the manager as an apprentice, and after a season in Roumania and a disastrous trip through Southern Austria, they came into Northern Italy, where I met him.

Women who are expert ballet dancers and those who are skilled acrobats can hardly be termed physiological weaklings.

Marco's big eyes opened widely as Andy made plain the fact that he was a very fair amateur acrobat.

12 adjectives to describe  acrobat