Acrobat

Acrobat may refer to:

  • Acrobat, one who practises acrobatics

In music:

  • "Acrobat" (song), from U2's album Achtung Baby
  • "Acrobat", a song from Maxïmo Park's album A Certain Trigger
  • Acrobat Records, an independent record company

In literature:

  • Acrobat (comics), a Marvel Comics character
  • Acrobat, a novel by Gonzalo Lira

In computers:

  • Adobe Acrobat, a family of computer programs
  • Acrobat.com, a suite of hosted document exchange services from Adobe Systems

In art:

  • The Acrobats (1927), a wood carving by Alan Durst

Famous quotes containing the word acrobat:

    “Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.”
    —Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)

    “Most days I feel like an acrobat high above a crowd out of which my own parents, my in-laws, potential employers, phantoms of “other women who do it” and a thousand faceless eyes stare up.”
    —Anonymous Mother. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)