dances

NOUN

moving feet and body to music

Synonyms

STRONGEST

disco rock samba tango waltz

STRONG

Charleston bob boogie caper careen cavort conga flit foxtrot frolic gambol hop hustle jig jitter jitterbug jive jump leap one-step prance promenade rhumba shimmy skip spin step strut sway swing tap tread trip twist two-step whirl

WEAK

boogie down bunny hop cut a rug foot it get down hoof it rock n' roll trip the light fantastic

NOUN

party for moving to music

Synonyms

STRONGEST

disco prom

STRONG

ball brawl formal hop jump masquerade mingle promenade shindig social

WEAK

hoedown sock hop

Example Sentences

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Dances, for instance, may mimic animal behaviors, or reference popular moments from the series, such as getting grannies to floss.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

Canadian actor Graham Greene is best remembered for his role as Kicking Bird in the 1990 Western, Dances With Wolves.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025

Ballet dancer Lucy Balfour says she experienced great "joy" performing the contemporary pieces Ghost Dances while pregnant with her first child.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

He and three other high school students scored a national hit in the mid-1960s with ‘Land of 1000 Dances.’

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025

Among the most popular collections of the type that Liszt’s example engendered were Johannes Brahms’s Hungarian Dances of 1869 and 1880, which exploit all the usual folksy dance forms of lassan, friska and csardas.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall