Skillful and often dangerous physical feats involving balance, coordination, and dexterity.
From French acrobacie, from Greek akron (peak, top) + baino (to walk). The term originally described the apex of physical movement skill.
The moment acrobacy shifted from street performance to circus art in 18th-century Europe, it became a symbol of human potential—the idea that bodies could defy gravity through pure skill.
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