acrobaticsn.

1852 Ripley (Ohio) Bee 10 July Among the truly Magnificent Pageants presented, may be enumerated the grand scena of the..feats of the gymnasium, Olympic sports, acrobatics.

1882 G. MacDonald Weighed & Wanting II. iv. 28 There was not much popular receptivity for acrobatics in the streets.

1890 Athenæum 22 Feb. 239/1 The art and science of what may be called acrobatics have never yet received really adequate treatment.

1920 Variety 31 Dec. 124 She learned acrobatics..wire walking and aerial work.

1922 Daily Mail 4 Dec. 11 Habton is a very fast chaser, but rather given to acrobatics.

1974 Observer 13 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 20/3 (caption) Swinging from palm fronds like a teenage Tarzan, this Arab boy performs acrobatics for the benefit of admiring tourists at the oasis of Gafsa in Tunisia.

1992 L. Woidwode Indian Affairs vii. 134 A pair of kestrels..were doing aerial acrobatics above my hill.

2004 Daily Tel. 2 Feb. 8/7 Putting on public entertainment—like singing, dancing or acrobatics—is licensable wherever it takes place because public safety issues arise.

1856 Morning Post 12 Sept. 4/1 We do not wonder at..the acrobatics of Mr. Marcy's belligerent logic.

1882 Glasgow Herald 21 Nov. 3/9 The memory of that feat of moral acrobatics will..make a lasting page in history.

1917 W. J. Locke Red Planet ix A mind trained in the acrobatics of a Calvinistic Theology.

1941 K. Shridharani My India, my Amer. ix. 258 It was not until Vātsyāyāna, the Indian Plato, that the syllogism became the center of the art of intellectual acrobatics.

2001 Wall St. Jrnl. 7 Dec. a14/3 The cash-strapped country may resort to financial acrobatics to scrape through the rest of the year.