| ACROBAT | Meaning "walking on tiptoe", a performer of gymnastic feats such as funambulism or trapeze (7) |
| TUTU | Attire for walking on tiptoe |
| ACROBATISM | The art of a balancer, funambulist, somersaulter, tiptoer, trapezist or other performer of gymnastic feats (10) |
| BARBELL | Fish left a piece of gymnastic equipment (7) |
| GLASSES | Misses going after first of gymnastic tumblers? (7) |
| POMMELS | Saddle horns for which a piece of gymnastics equipment is named |
| GIRLIER | Head of gymnastics previously sounded more feminine |
| ACROBATIC | A European retaining bachelor in charge of gymnastic feats |
| ROPE | A string of pearls; or, thick cord used for boxing rings, funambulism, hammocks, tree swings or for ladders leading to boats or tree houses (4) |
| PARALLEL | --- bars are a piece of gymnastics equipment consisting of a pair of wooden bars on uprights (8) |
| AERIALIST | An acrobatic performer on the high wire or trapeze (9) |
| WONDERWORKER | A performer of miraculous feats (6-6) |
| CONJUROR | A performer of tricks typically involving sleight of hand (8) |
| SAMSON | Who, in the Old Testament, was a performer of herculean exploits (6) |
| SPLITS | Sliced-open Cornish cream buns; or, gymnastic feats of laterally separating legs and lowering bums (6) |
| AERIALISTS | Those who perform acrobatics on a tightrope or trapezes (10) |
| CARTWHEEL | It's a gymnastic feat to provide a piece of farm transport (4-5) |
| SATURN | God's a performer of tricks, perhaps? (6) |
| ROPEWALKING | Common name for funambulism (4-7) |
| DOINGBACKFLIPS | Performing gymnastic feats, and a hint to seven words "attracted" to their opposites in this puzzle |
