a. [f. prec. + -IC. Cf. mod. Fr. acrobatique.] Of or pertaining to an acrobat, gymnastic performer, or tumbler.
1861. Bp. G. Smith, Ten Weeks in Japan, xxvi. 373. One of the actors came forth before the crowd of holiday-makers and performed a variety of acrobatic evolutions.
1880. A. Trollope, Duke’s Children, III. x. 109. The acrobatic manœuvre which had carried Mr. Spooner over the peril.
1911. A. M. Ludovici, trans. Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols. What is the good of all free-spiritedness, modernity, mockery and acrobatic suppleness, if in one’s belly one is still a Christian.
