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• n  an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze)

• There can be no higher calling even for an aerialist.
• In Mary Lambert's gorgeous, complex ghost story Siesta, Barkin is already dead, but that cannot stop her from a convulsive rendezvous with the aerialist of her dreams.
• And when a traveling circus parks on his farm, he falls in lust with an aerialist named Gina (Valeria Golino).

News & Articles

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• Aerialist crosses quarter-mile gorge near Grand Canyon
  LITTLE COLORADO RIVER GORGE, Ariz. — Aerialist Nik Wallenda completed a tightrope walk that took him a quarter-mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona on Sunday.        
  June 24, 2013 - Boston Globe
• Aerialist completes tightrope walk across gorge near Grand Canyon
  Little Colorado River Gorge., Ariz. — Florida aerialist Nik Wallenda completed a tightrope walk that took him a quarter mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona on Sunday.
  June 24, 2013 - Detroit News
• Aerialist Wallenda completes tightrope walk near Grand Canyon
  Florida aerialist Nik Wallenda completed a tightrope walk that took him a quarter mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona on Sunday.
  June 24, 2013 - Journal & Courier

Quotes

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• Deidra Dionne in Canada.com
  They say it will hurt, but it's not something as an aerialist that I use,Red Deer, Alta.'s Dionne, an Olympic bronze medallist in 2002, said of the rib injury.