A performer who is represented in a quite number of circus genres. Most often an acrobat's scope of works includes jumps, balancing, and other kinds of works involving strength and adroitness on the very circus ring surface where only a minimum number of apparatuses are present. The most typical examples are: "acrobatic column", where acrobats jump by pushing off their partners' shoulders, standing one-atop-one, and weight-lifting pairs, where an acrobat serves as gymnastic apparatus to his partner, and vice versa.