Provided is an absorbent article which is configured so that the skin of a wearer can be effectively prevented from being in contact with urine and feces having been discharged on an absorbent body during the wearing thereof. The absorbent article has: a leak preventer in sheet form; an absorber that is arranged above the leak preventer and is capable of absorbing a bodily fluid in at least one layer; and a pair of right and left floating leg gathers that are arranged, above the absorber, from a front end part to a rear end part in a length direction of a body of the absorbent article via a front body, a crotch part and a rear body, wherein the floating leg gathers have head parts and hanging parts that connect to the head parts, respectively, a front end part and a rear end part of each of the hanging parts respectively being coupled near to a front end part and near to a rear end part of the body of the absorbent article, and each of the hanging parts hangs down from the head part toward the absorber, wherein the hanging parts of the floating leg gathers are fixed to the absorber at a lower end part of the hanging part in the crotch part, without fixing to the absorber in the front body and the rear body, and wherein, at a time of use, the head parts of the floating leg gathers make contact with a wearer's skin and maintains a spaced-apart condition with respect to the absorber.