Dictionary entry details
• PERFORMING ARTS (noun)
Meaning:
Arts or skills that require public performance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("performing arts" is a kind of...):
arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))
Domain member category:
play (be performed)
debut (appear for the first time in public)
debut (make one's debut)
debut (present for the first time to the public)
premier; premiere (perform a work for the first time)
premier; premiere (be performed for the first time)
audition; try out (perform in order to get a role)
read (audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role)
act; play; represent (play a role or part)
practice; practise; rehearse (engage in a rehearsal (of))
impersonate; portray (assume or act the character of)
interpret; render (give an interpretation or rendition of)
subtitle (supply (a movie) with subtitles)
play (perform on a certain location)
give (perform for an audience)
direct (guide the actors in (plays and films))
cast (select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet)
recast (cast again, in a different role)
miscast (cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role)
typecast (cast repeatedly in the same kind of role)
stage direct (direct for the stage)
present; represent; stage (perform (a play), especially on a stage)
stunt (perform a stunt or stunts)
blaze away (perform (an acting passage) brilliantly and rapidly)
perform (give a performance (of something))
grandstand (perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause)
underperform (perform too rarely)
sight-sing; sightsing (sing from a score without having seen it before)
costume (furnish with costumes; as for a film or play)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "performing arts"):
musical performance (the act of performing music)
dance; dancing; saltation; terpsichore (taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music)
acting; performing; playacting; playing (the performance of a part or role in a drama)
