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D0020500 (dăns)v. danced, danc·ing, danc·es v.intr.1. To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.2. Zoology To perform a specialized set of movements to communicate chiefly with other members of the same species.3. a. To move or leap about excitedly.b. To bob up and down or move about rapidly: The leaves danced in the wind.c. To appear to flash or twinkle: eyes that danced with merriment.4. Informal To speak or behave in an evasive or vacillating manner: danced around the issue.v.tr.1. To engage in or perform (a dance).2. To lead (someone) in a dance.3. To cause to move up and down quickly or lightly: danced the child on her knee.n.1. a. A series of motions and steps, such as the waltz or tango, usually performed to music.b. The act or an instance of dancing: May I have this dance?c. The music composed or played for a certain kind of dance or for a particular dance.d. The art of dancing: studied dance in college.2. A party or gathering of people for dancing.3. Zoology An act of communication by dancing: a peacock's courtship dance.Idiom: dance attendance on To attend to or try to please (someone) with eagerness or obsequiousness.

[Middle English dauncen, from Old French danser, perhaps of Germanic origin.]

danc′er n.danc′ing·ly adv.

Dancing

See also performing.
choreodramaa drama expressed in dance or with dance as an integral part of its content and form.choreography1. the art of composing dances for the stage, especially in conceiving and realizing the movements of the dancers.
2. the technique of representing dance movements through a notational scheme.
3. the art of dancing. Also called choregraphy, orchesography. — choreographer, n. — choreographic, adj.choreomaniaa mania for dancing.ecdysiasta striptease performer or exotic dancer.orchesographychoreography. Also orchesis, orchestics.tripudiationRare. the act of dancing. — tripudiary, adj.

Dancing

See Also: AGILITY, INSULTS, WORDS OF PRAISE

As light on your feet as a fairy —Rita Mae Brown
See Also: LIGHTNESS
As limber as a couple of Yale pass-keys (addressed to a dancer) —O. Henry
Danced like a faun —O. Henry
O. Henry was well known for perverting and extending existing sayings. This one can be traced to Robert Lowell’s “Dancing like naked fauns too glad for shame.”
Danced like a wave —Dame Edith Sitwell
Danced like a wet dream —Martin Amis
Danced like sandflies —Margaret Atwood
Danced like something dark and slithery from the Argentine —P. G. Wodehouse
(People) danced, moving their bodies like thick rope —Susan Richards Shreve
Dancers swaying like wet washing in a high wind —Lawrence Durrell
Dances like a Mack truck —Cornell Woolrich
Dances like an angel —Joseph Addison
(Sometimes I think that) dancing, like youth, is wasted on the young —Max Lerner
Dancing with her must be a good deal like moving the piano or something —Ring Lardner
(Helga Danzing danced just the way she looked: big, clumsy, almost impossible to lead,) dancing with her was like pushing a weight uphill —Abraham Rothberg
(You’ve got) a foot movement like a baby hippopotamus trying to sidestep a jab from a humming-bird … and your knees are about as limber as a couple of Yale pass-keys —O. Henry
Pirouetting like a Baryshnikov —T. Coraghessan Boyle
Sailed like a coquettish yacht convoyed by a stately cruiser —O. Henry
You dance like there’s a stone in your shoe —John Updike

Thesaurus

Noun

dancing - taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to musicterpsichore, dance, saltationsidestep - a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)diversion, recreation - an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates; "scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists"; "for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles"; "drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation"adagio - a slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and strength by the dancersbreak dance, break dancing - a form of solo dancing that involves rapid acrobatic moves in which different parts of the body touch the ground; normally performed to the rhythm of rap musiccourante - a court dance of the 16th century; consisted of short advances and retreatsnauch, nautch, nautch dance - an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girlspavan, pavane - a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuriesphrase - dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequencesaraband - a stately court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries; in slow timeskank - a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the kneesslam dance, slam dancing - a form of dancing in which dancers slam into one another; normally performed to punk rockhoofing, step dancing - dancing in which the steps are more important than gestures or posturestoe dance, toe dancing - a dance performed on tiptoechoreography, stage dancing - a show involving artistic dancingpas seul, variation - (ballet) a solo dance or dance figurepas de deux, duet - (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)pas de trois - (ballet) a dance for three peoplepas de quatre - (ballet) a dance for four peoplesocial dancing - dancing as part of a social occasionmambo - a Latin American dance similar in rhythm to the rumbaceremonial dance, ritual dance, ritual dancing - a dance that is part of a religious ritualtap - a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)performing arts - arts or skills that require public performancebusker - a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for moneyjive - dance to jive music; dance the jivetrip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe, dance - move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance; "My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio"clog - dance a clog dancetap dance - perform a tap dancebelly dance - perform a belly danceheel - perform with the heels; "heel that dance"shimmy - dance a shimmy

Translations

跳舞跳舞用的

dance

(daːns) verb1. to move in time to music by ma-king a series of rhythmic steps. She began to dance; Can you dance the waltz?跳舞2. to move quickly up and down. The father was dancing the baby on his knee.上下摆动 noun1. a series of fixed steps made in time to music. Have you done this dance before?; (also adjective) dance music.舞蹈2. a social gathering at which people dance. We're going to a dance next Saturday.舞会ˈdancer nouna ballet dancer.舞蹈演员ˈdancing nounShe likes dancing; (also adjective) dancing shoes. 跳舞，跳舞用的

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→ 跳舞zhCN

Where can we go dancing? → 我们能去哪儿跳舞？
I feel like dancing → 我想跳舞

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noun taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music

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