Acro Terminology

The artistic use of bending, twisting, rotating, balancing, and stretching movements to perform skills.

• Acrobatics

• Backbend

• Front Walkover

• Back Walkover

The artistic use of acrobatics and tumbling skill combined with dance and usually performed to music.

• Acrobatics

• Acrobatic dancing

• Cartwheel

• Forward roll

skills requiring controlled movements, utilizing a normal amount of flexibility.

• Acrobatics

• Acrobatic dancing

• Contortion acrobatics

• Controlled acrobatics

Skills requiring an unusually supple and flexible body, often stretching the body beyond its normal limitations.

• Controlled acrobatics

• Cartwheel

• Contortion acrobatics

• Backbend

A circular sideways handspring with the arms and legs extended.

• Cartwheel

• Backbend

• Forward roll

• Backward roll

When the body is turned heels over head with the back of the neck resting on the ground.

• Cartwheel

• Forward roll

• Backbend

• Backward roll

When the body is rolled backwards, by crouching on the ground and lifting one's legs complete over one's head and lifting the head at the end.

• Backward roll

• Forward roll

• Backbend

• Cartwheel

When the body is arched backwards and downwards from an upright position until the hands touch the floor or arched upwards from a supine position, using the hands and feet for support.

• Acrobatics

• Cartwheel

• Backward roll

• Backbend

A move starting in a lunge going into a split handstand and continues to walk over and step out onto the feet.

• Back walkover

• Front walkover

• Backbend

• Handstand

A move starting and finishing on the feet and made by lifting one leg, arching back into and passing through a handstand position by bringing one foot, then the other over the top and stepping down from the handstand into a lunge.

• Front walkover

• Back walkover

• Handstand

• Somersault