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# acrobat

«acrobat» in Mova's school dictionary: **a performer who does difficult and exciting movements…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an acrobat, acrobats)

### meaning for a pupil

An acrobat is a performer who does difficult and exciting movements like flips, balancing and jumps, especially in a circus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acrobat/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories it is about circus performers, gymnasts and very agile animals. Phrases: circus acrobat, trapeze acrobat, a natural acrobat.

### examples

- The acrobat did a backflip on the tightrope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acrobat/#x1)
- Chinese acrobats can balance on each other's shoulders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acrobat/#x2)
- Monkeys are acrobats of the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acrobat/#x3)
- She wants to be an acrobat when she grows up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acrobat/#x4)
- The acrobats flew from one trapeze to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acrobat/#x5)
- Our cat is a real acrobat on the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acrobat/#x6)

### note

Countable: an acrobat. Adjective: acrobatic; noun for the skill: acrobatics. Safety: practise flips only with a trained coach and mats.

### In the corpora

- [Squirrels are skilled acrobats that solve puzzles to reach bird feeders, and some people build squirrel obstacle courses for fun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «acrobat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acrobat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.