Circus (disambiguation)

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A circus is a traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts.

Circus or The Circus may also refer to:

Art and architecture

• Circus (Bath), a structure in Bath, Somerset, England
• Circus (building), an open-air public space in the Roman Empire
• The Circus (Seurat), an 1891 painting by Georges Seurat

Film and television

• Circus (1936 film), Soviet melodramatic comedy
• Circus (2000 film), crime thriller
• Circus (2009 film), India Kannada film
• Circus (TV series), a 1989–1990 Indian TV series
• The Circus (film) (1928), directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth, a Showtime documentary on the 2016 U.S. election directed by Mark McKinnon
• Circus, a 2002 episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• Circus, a 2009 episode Glenn Martin, DDS
• Circus, a 2010 PBS documentary series on the Big Apple Circus

Literature

• Circus (magazine), a rock music magazine published from 1966–2006
• Circus (novel), a 1975 novel by Alistair MacLean

Music

• Circus music

Musicians

• Circus (American band)
• Circus (French band)
• Circus (rapper) (21st century), American rapper
• Circus, a band formed by Mel Collins

Albums

• Circus (Argent album), 1975
• Circus (Britney Spears album), 2008
  • The Circus Starring Britney Spears, tour for album above
• Circus (Chiaki Kuriyama album), 2011
• Circus (Eraserheads album), 1994
• Circus (FictionJunction Yuuka album), 2007
• Circus (Lenny Kravitz album), 1995
• The Circus (Erasure album), 1987
• The Circus (Take That album), 2008
• Circus, a 1981 album by Flairck

Songs

• "Circus" (song), 2008 song by Britney Spears
• "The Circus" (song), 1978 song by Erasure
• "Circus", a 1949 song by Louis Alter
• "Circus", a 1968 song by Sonny & Cher
• "Circus", by a 1969 song by Friend and Lover
• ""Circus (What I Am)", a 1972 song by Michael Quatro
• "Circus", a 1973 song by String Driven Thing
• "Circus", a 1973 song by Uriah Heep from Sweet Freedom
• "Circus", a 1975 song by Argent from Circus
• "Circus", a 1977 song by Brotherhood of Man later reissued on Images
• "Circus", a 1993 song by Circle from Kollekt
• "Circus", a 1996 song by Tomoyasu Hotei
• "Cirkus", a 1970 song by King Crimson from Lizard
• "Circus", a 1996 song by John Cale from Walking on Locusts

Other uses

• Circus (company), a Japanese visual novel studio
• Circus (genus), the largest genus of harriers
• Circus (video game), a Breakout clone released by Exidy in 1977
• Circus offensive, British Royal Air Force bombing operations during World War II
• Media circus, overblown media coverage of a news event, such as a trial
• The Circus, a nickname for the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

See also

• Circa
• Circum
• Circus Maximus (disambiguation)
• Flea circus, a very small circus pretending to show performing fleas
• Flying circus (disambiguation)