Aerial may refer to:

Music

* ''Aerial'' (album), by Kate Bush * ''Aerials'' (song), from the album ''Toxicity'' by System of a Down

Bands

Aerial (Canadian band) Aerial was a Canadian pop and rock band from Toronto, active from 1973 to 1981. History Saskatchewan natives Brian Meissner and Laurie Currie originally found notoriety in the Winnipeg showband Sugar & Spice. By 1972, the band had changed its ...

* Aerial (Scottish band) * Aerial (Swedish band)

Performance art

* Aerial silk, apparatus used in aerial acrobatics *

Aerialist Acrobatics () is the performance of human feats of balance, agility, and motor coordination. Acrobatic skills are used in performing arts, sporting events, and martial arts. Extensive use of acrobatic skills are most often performed in acro ...

, an acrobat who performs in the air

Recreation and sport

* Aerial (dance move) *

Aerial (skateboarding) Aerials (or more commonly airs) are a type of skateboarding trick Trick(s) may refer to: People * Trick McSorley (1852–1936), American professional baseball player * Armon Trick (born 1978), retired German international rugby union play ...

Aerial adventure park An adventure park is a place which can contain a wide variety of elements, including but not limited to, rope climbing exercises, obstacle courses, bouldering, rock climbing, target oriented activities, and zip-lines. They are usually intended ...

, ropes course with a recreational purpose * Aerial cartwheel (or side aerial), gymnastics move performed in acro dance and various martial arts *

Aerial skiing Aerial skiing or aerials is a freestyle skiing discipline where athletes ski down a slope to launch themselves off a kicker (a vertically inclined ramp) and perform multiple twists and flips before landing on an inclined landing hill. Aerialists ...

, discipline of freestyle skiing *

Front aerial A front aerial is an acrobatic move in which a person executes a complete forward revolution of the body without touching the floor. Front aerials are performed in various physical activities, including acro dance and gymnastics. The front aeri ...

, gymnastics move performed in acro dance

Technology

Antennas

Aerial (radio) In radio engineering, an antenna or aerial is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver. In transmission, a radio transmitter supplies an ...

, a radio ''antenna'' or transducer that transmits or receives electromagnetic waves **

Aerial (television) A television antenna (TV aerial) is an antenna specifically designed for use with a television receiver (TV) to receive over-the-air broadcast television signals from a television station. Television reception is dependent upon the antenna as ...

, an over-the-air television reception antenna

Mechanical

Aerial fire apparatus Aerial may refer to: Music * ''Aerial'' (album), by Kate Bush * ''Aerials'' (song), from the album ''Toxicity'' by System of a Down Bands * Aerial (Canadian band) * Aerial (Scottish band) *Aerial (Swedish band) Performance art *Aerial silk ...

, for firefighting and rescue *Aerial work platform, for positioning workers

Optical

*Aerial photography *Aerial telescope

Other uses

*Aerial, Georgia, a community in the United States *Aerial (magazine), ''Aerial'' (magazine), a poetry magazine *Aerials (film), ''Aerials'' (film), a 2016 Emirati science-fiction film *''Aerial'', a BBC Two '1991–2001' idents, TV ident for BBC Two from 1997 to 2001