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:

Basic meanings

• Circus (building), an open-air venue used for public events in the Roman Empire
• Circus (genus), the largest genus of harriers, a type of bird of prey
• Circus offensive, codename for bombing raids of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II
• Media circus, overblown media coverage of a news event, such as a trial
• The Circus, a nickname for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (or MI6)
• The Circus, Bath, originally called King's Circus, a circular space surrounded by large townhouses in the city of Bath, England

Art, entertainment, and media

Art

• The Circus (Seurat painting), an 1891 painting by Georges Seurat
• The Creative Circus, an advertising portfolio school in Atlanta, Georgia

Film

• The Circus (film) (1928), directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• Circus (1936 film), Soviet melodramatic comedy
• Circus (2000 film), crime thriller
• Circus (2009 film), India Kannada film

Games

• Circus (video game), a Breakout clone released by Exidy in 1977
• Circus Atari, a spinoff of the above game for the Atari 2600 console

Literature

• Circus (magazine), a now-defunct publication which covered the rock scene, much like Rolling Stone magazine
• Circus (novel), a 1975 novel by Alistair MacLean

Music

Groups

• Circus (American band), USA band in the 1970s
• Circus (French band), French band established in 2012
• Circus, UK band, formed by Mel Collins, 1967–69, also known as Cirkus

Artists

• Circus (rapper), American rapper from The Shape Shifters

Albums

• Circus (FictionJunction Yuuka album), 2007
• Circus (Britney Spears album), 2008 album by Britney Spears
  • The Circus Starring Britney Spears, tour for album above
• The Circus (Take That album), 2008 album
• Circus (Eraserheads album), 1994 album
• Circus (Lenny Kravitz album), 1995
• Circus (Argent album), Argent's 1975 seventh album
• The Circus (Erasure album), a 1987 album

Songs

• Circus (1949 song)
• "Circus" (song), Britney Spears
• "Circus", a song by Argent (band) 1975
• "Circus", a song by Brotherhood of Man T. Hiller, L. Sheriden, M. Lee 1977
• "Circus", a song by Case (singer) Brook, Newman 2012
• "Circus", a song by Cathy Young Young 1969
• "Circus", a song by Circle (band) 1993
• "Circus", a song by Flairck 1983
• "Circus", a song by Friend and Lover 1969
• "Circus", a song by Mike Quatro Jam Band 1972
• "Circus", a single by Sonny and Cher written Sonny Bono 1968
• "Circus", a song by String Driven Thing 1973
• "Circus", a song by Twisted Wheel 2008
• "Circus", a song by Uriah Heep 1973
• "Circus", a single by Japanese rock singer Tomoyasu Hotei 1996
• "Circus", a song by Passenger from the album Passenger (Passenger album) 2003
• "The Circus" (song), the title track of the Erasure album

Television

• Circus (TV series), an Indian TV series starring Shahrukh Khan and Ashutosh Gowariker, 1989–1990
• Circus, an episode of the Adult Swim animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, 2002
• Circus Action, a Taiwanese television series consisting of four young men engaging in ridiculous behavior, 2005
• Circus, a six part PBS documentary about the 2008–09 season of the Big Apple Circus
• Circus, an episode of Glenn Martin, DD], now the episode is called The Grossest Show On Earth, 2009

Other entertainment

• Circus (company), a Japanese visual novel studio

See also

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