acrobatics

English

Etymology

From acrobat +‎ -ics.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ætɪks

Noun

acrobatics (uncountable)

1. The art of performing acrobatic gymnastic feats.
2. A spectacular display of agility.
   • 2000, The Cambridge History of American Theatre, →ISBN, page 218:

     […] he performs linguistic acrobatics, bringing a new sense of language into the theatre, combining lexiconic esoterica with street speech.

Derived terms

• Acroyoga
• aerobatics
• aquabatics
• mental acrobatics
• sport acrobatics

 

Translations

art of performing acrobatic feats

• Arabic: بِهْلَوَانِيَّات f (bihlawāniyyāt)
• Armenian: ակրոբատիկա (hy) (akrobatika)
• Belarusian: акрабатыка f (akrabatyka)
• Bulgarian: акроба́тика (bg) f (akrobátika)
• Catalan: acrobàcia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雜技 / 杂技 (zaap⁶ gei⁶)

  Mandarin: 雜技 / 杂技 (zh) (zájì)

• Crimean Tatar: akrobatika
• Czech: akrobatika f, akrobacie f
• Danish: akrobatik c
• Esperanto: akrobataĵo
• Estonian: akrobaatika (et)
• Finnish: akrobatia (fi)
• French: acrobatie (fr) f
• Galician: acrobacia (gl) f
• Georgian: აკრობატიკა (aḳrobaṭiḳa)
• German: Akrobatik (de) f
• Greek: ακροβασία (el) f (akrovasía)
• Hebrew: אקרובטיקה f (akrobatika), לולינות f (lulianot)
• Hungarian: akrobatika (hu)
• Japanese: 曲芸 (ja) (きょくげい, kyokugei), 軽業 (ja) (かるわざ, karuwaza)
• Kazakh: акробатика (akrobatika)
• Lithuanian: akrobatika f
• Maori: pōtēteke, pōteketeke
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: akrobatikk (no) m

  Norwegian Nynorsk: akrobatikk m

• Polish: akrobatyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: acrobacia (pt) f
• Romanian: acrobatică (ro), acrobație (ro) f
• Russian: акроба́тика (ru) f (akrobátika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: акробатика f, акробације f pl

  Roman: akrobatika (sh) f, akrobacije (sh) f pl

• Spanish: acrobacia (es) f
• Swedish: akrobatik (sv) c
• Tagalog: akrobasya
• Turkish: akrobasi (tr)
• Ukrainian: акробатика (uk) f (akrobatyka)

Further reading

• acrobatics on Wikiversity.Wikiversity