Usually means: Expression through music, dance, theater.
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  1. performing arts: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. performing arts: Merriam-Webster
  3. performing arts: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. performing arts: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. performing arts: Collins English Dictionary
  6. performing arts: Vocabulary.com
  7. performing-arts: Wordnik
  8. the performing arts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. performing arts: Wiktionary
  10. performing arts: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. performing arts: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. performing arts: Dictionary.com
  13. Performing Arts, Performing arts: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. performing arts: Rhymezone
  15. performing arts: FreeDictionary.org
  16. performing arts: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. performing arts: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (art) The arts involving performance, such as dance, theatre, music, etc.

Similar:
performance, performance art, dancing, acrobatics, musical, physical theatre, hand, stagecraft, drag act, instrumentation, more...

Opposite:
visual arts, fine arts, plastic arts

Types:
theater, dance, music, opera, circus, comedy, magic, puppetry, mime, more...

Phrases:
lincoln center for the performing arts, the performing arts, performing arts medicine, School of Performing Arts Seoul, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, more...

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Similar:
performance, performance art, dancing, acrobatics, musical, physical theatre, hand, stagecraft, drag act, instrumentation, more...

Opposite:
visual arts, fine arts, plastic arts

Types:
theater, dance, music, opera, circus, comedy, magic, puppetry, mime, more...

Phrases:
lincoln center for the performing arts, the performing arts, performing arts medicine, School of Performing Arts Seoul, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Professional Performing Arts School, more...



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