| ballroom dancing |
dancing performed by couples to a variety of social dances, such as the waltz, tango, or fox trot. |
| barn dance |
a social gathering for dancing, often held in a barn and featuring square dances. |
| belly dance |
an eastern Mediterranean dance performed by women, in which the dancer makes sinuous rhythmic movements of the abdomen. |
| break dancing |
a style of dancing involving acrobatic movements, such as spinning headstands, pantomime, and jerky, robotlike movements. |
| clog dance |
a dance, with or without music, performed by a group of dancers wearing wooden-soled clogs that are stamped percussively to the rhythm. |
| contra dance |
a folk dance, similar to the quadrille, in which dancers often form lines and face each other. [2 definitions] |
| country-dance |
an English folk dance characterized by dancers forming two lines facing each other. |
| dance hall |
a usu. public establishment that charges an admission price and provides space, music, and sometimes partners for dancing. |
| folk dance |
a dance or type of dance originated, performed, and handed down by the common folk of a region or country. [2 definitions] |
| folk dancing |
the activity of dancing to the traditional music of a particular region using steps that have been established by custom. |
| medicine dance |
a ritual dance performed by some North American Indian peoples to drive out disease, bring rain, invoke supernatural aid, or the like. |
| modern dance |
a form of contemporary dance in which stylized movements of the body depict and express ideas, emotions, and the like. |
| round dance |
a folk dance performed by a circle of dancers. [2 definitions] |
| Saint Vitus's dance |
a type of chorea esp. affecting children. |
| snake dance |
a religious ceremonial dance of certain American Indians in which live snakes are imitated or handled, esp. in the biennial ceremony of the Hopi Indians. [2 definitions] |
| song and dance |
(informal) an effort to persuade, mislead, or deceive by an elaborate or irrelevant explanation or story. [2 definitions] |
| square dance |
a lively dance in which couples form circles, squares, or other shapes and often execute steps or maneuvers as they are called out by the caller. |
| square-dance |
to perform the square dance. |
| sun dance |
a ritual dance performed by certain North American Plains Indians at the summer solstice. |
| tap dance |
a dance in which the performer, wearing shoes with special hard soles, uses the foot, heel, or toe to tap out a rhythm. |