Aerial may refer to:

Music

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

Bands

Aerial (Scottish band) Aerial are a power-pop band who formed in the late 1990s in Aberdeen, Scotland. History Aerial are a power-pop band formed in Aberdeen, Scotland in the late 1990s. In 1999, the band signed to London-label Fantastic Plastic Records and recorde ...

Aerial (Swedish band) Aerial is a post/indie-rock band from Sandviken, Sweden. They’ve released four full-length albums so far: “Black Rain From The Bombing” in 2006, “The Sentinel” in 2007, “The Legion of Dynamic Dischord” in 2008 and "Put it this way i ...

Performance art

Aerial silk Aerial silks (also known as aerial contortion, aerial ribbons, aerial tissues, fabric, ribbon, or ''tissu'') is a type of performance in which one or more artists perform aerial acrobatics while hanging from a specialist fabric. The fabric may b ...

, apparatus used in aerial acrobatics * Aerialist, an acrobat who performs in the air

Recreation and sport

Aerial (dance move) An Aerial (also acrobatic, air step or air) is a dance move in Lindy Hop or Boogie Woogie where one's feet leave the floor. As opposed to a lift, aerial is a step where a partner needs to be thrown into the air and then landed in time with the mus ...

Aerial (skateboarding) Aerials (or more commonly airs) are a type of skateboarding trick usually performed on half-pipes A half-pipe is a structure used in gravity extreme sports such as snowboarding, skateboarding, skiing, freestyle BMX, skating, and scooter ri ...

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, gymnastics move performed in acro dance

Technology

Antennas

* Aerial (radio), a radio ''antenna'' or transducer that transmits or receives electromagnetic waves ** Aerial (television), an over-the-air television reception antenna

Mechanical

* Aerial fire apparatus, 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), a poetry magazine * ''Aerials'' (film), a 2016 Emirati science-fiction film *''Aerial'', a TV ident for BBC Two from 1997 to 2001