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. See also :

• Flea circus, a very small circus pretending showing performing fleas.

Circus may also mean:

• circus (building), an example of a public equipped space for chariot racing, shows and other spectacles of the Classical period - modelled on the Circus Maximus
• An open space, usually circular, where a number of roads meet, such as:
  • Oxford Circus, London
  • Cambridge Circus, London
  • Piccadilly Circus, London
  • The Circus (Bath)
• harrier (bird), a genus of harriers, a type of bird of prey
• Media circus, overblown media coverage of a news event, such as a trial.

In film:

• Circus (2000 film), crime thriller starring John Hannah
• The Circus (1958 film), a Chinese film
• Circus (1936 film), Soviet melodramatic comedy
• The Circus (silent film) (1928), starring Charlie Chaplin
• The Invisible Circus (2001), starring Cameron Diaz

In literature:

• Circus (novel), a novel by Alistair MacLean
• In many novels by John le Carré, the British Secret Intelligence Service is referred to as The Circus, due to its (fictional) location in Cambridge Circus, London.
• Circus (magazine), a now-defunct publication which covered the rock scene, much like Rolling Stone magazine.

In music:

• The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus 1968 event, hosted by The Rolling Stones featuring many Rock and Roll bands from the time.
• Circus (Eraserheads album) is also an album by the pinoy rock band The Eraserheads.
• The Circus (album), an album by Erasure.
  • "The Circus (song)", the title track of the above Erasure album.

Also:

• an arcade game from 1977 like the Atari 2600 game Circus Atari.