All the things that distinguish the ideal basketball player are acts of skill and coördination.
Many characteristics of the modern circus such as parades, acts of skill, animals, and clowns had become mainstays of many circuses by the mid-19th century.
In the 20th century the Wallendas, a family of high-wire artists originally from Germany who debuted with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey show in 1928, helped set the standard for acts of skill.
By A. J. Liebling The New Yorker, September 26 , 1936P. 18 Profile of George A. Hamid, president and owner of George A. Hamid, Inc., an agency which furnishes acts of skill and daring to thirty amusement parks hereabouts and to all country fairs that are held this time of the year in the state capitals and county seats of the East and Middle West.
Whatever its function in a Communist country, the Moranbong Circus, which has won international acclaim for its artistry and acts of skill and daring, lived up to its billing in a recent 90-minute performance of eye-popping acrobatics that seemed to thrill the audience.
The story, whose antecedents are unravelled in an opening act of great skill which is practically a monologue for the wife probing and cajoling her silent, sulking, drunken husband, finally turns on a simple question of inheritance.
Boing Boing Gadgets and Wired News writer Joel Johnson described the game as "more than just a knock-off — it's an act of true skill and commitment by an unknown team of Chinese coders".
The act of using skills to transform material – with the help of techniques and tools developed over centuries, but ones that are still changing – crosses barriers and brings people together in ways that other forms of education do not.
They act on skills and experience in an unreflective manner.
Acts of human skill experienced a resurgence in the 19th century as a part of the circus.
