[f. ACROBAT + -ISM.] The art or profession of the acrobat; the performance of gymnastic feats. lit. and fig.
1864. Daily Tel., 29 July. The course and its follies … its quacks and mountebanks, and its acrobatism.
1865. Reader, No. 133. 76/1. Displays of vocal acrobatism.
1866. S. G. O[sborne], Lett. on Educ., 13. This infantine, mental acrobatism, is to me simply hateful.
1882. Athenæum, 1 July, 11. A certain amount of moral acrobatism will be practised on the line which divides the proper from the improper.
