Aerial (from and , meaning "air") may refer to:

Music

  • Aerial (album), by Kate Bush, and that album's title track
  • "Aerials" (song), from the album Toxicity by System of a Down

Bands

  • Aerial (Canadian band)
  • Aerial (Scottish band)
  • Aerial (Swedish band)

Recreation and sport

  • Aerial (dance move)
  • Aerial (skateboarding)
  • Front aerial, gymnastics move performed in acro dance
  • Aerial cartwheel
  • Aerial silk, a form of acrobatics
  • Aerial skiing

Science and technology

  • Flight, by flying and gliding animals, skydivers/wingsuiters and aircraft
  • Aviation, human activities (both civil and military) using aircraft for private recreation/tourism, specialty services (aeromedical, policing, journalism, firefighting or air-sea rescue), commercial passenger travel (air travel) and freight transport (air cargo)
  • Aerial warfare, military operations using aircraft
  • Aerial surveying, surveillance and reconnaissance, the gathering of useful information such as measurements, geometrics and intelligence using loitering aircraft.
  • Aerial photography, capturing images and videos using aircraft
  • Aerial maneuver, unusual aircraft flight patterns such as aerobatic and air combat manoeuvring
  • Aerial respiration, a form of respiration, typically by terrestrial animals, where gas exchange is conducted directly with the air, as opposed to aquatic respiration.
  • Aerial lift, a means of cable transport in which cable cars, gondolas or open chairs are hauled above the ground by means of one or more suspended wire ropes
  • Aerial (radio), a radio antenna or transducer that wirelessly transmits and/or receives electromagnetic signals
  • Aerial (television), an over-the-air television receiver antenna
  • Computer graphics, synonym of ringing artifacts

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

See also

  • Arial
  • Ariel (disambiguation)
  • Airiel
  • Area (disambiguation)
  • Airborne (disambiguation)
  • Antenna (disambiguation)