animal acts
Trained creature shows
Animal acts are trained performances by animals, typically in circuses, variety shows, or entertainment venues: The circus featured animal acts with elephants and tigers.
The term also refers to the performers and their animals as a unit.
In casual speech, animal acts can describe wild or unruly behavior: The party devolved into animal acts after midnight.
- bearsSupports or tolerates
- dancing bearsTrained ursines that sway
- jugglingSequential toss-and-catch performance
- monkeysTailed primates, not apes
- acrobaticsSkilled physical feats
seals · elephants · contortionist · tigers · dogs · lion tamer · cruelty · horses · dolphins · positive reinforcement · parrots · big top · circus ring · center ring · clowning · performance · spectacle · crowd pleaser
- circuscircus, big top, clown, clowns, ringmaster
- carnivalparade, costume, float, ferris wheel, roller coaster
- circus actsacrobat, acrobats, trapeze artist, juggling, jugglers
- circus termstrapeze artist, lion tamer, big top, juggler, tightrope walker
- variety actsacrobat, juggling, aerialist, magic, clown
- vaudevillevaudeville, variety show, variety act, music hall, headliner
animal actsacrobats
Performers of athletic feats
trapeze artists · clowns · magicians · jugglers · stand-up comedy
animal actsimprovisation
Spontaneous, unplanned creation
documentary footage · free expression · nature observation · artistic interpretation · wildlife observation
animal actsanimal sanctuaries
Protected homes for rescued fauna
wildlife conservation · Cirque du Soleil · animal liberation · humane treatment