Tumbling vs Acrobatics - What's the difference?
tumbling | acrobatics |
The act of something that tumbles.
* (James Howell)
* 1838 , Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
The art of performing acrobatic gymnastic feats.
A spectacular display of agility.
As nouns the difference between tumbling and acrobatics
is that tumbling is the act of something that tumbles while acrobatics is the art of performing acrobatic gymnastic feats.As a verb tumbling
is present participle of lang=en.tumbling
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- These so many conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings, many disturbances and changes in government
- Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.