Definition of tap dance in English:

tap dance

noun

A dance performed wearing shoes fitted with metal taps, characterized by rhythmical tapping of the toes and heels.
Example sentencesExamples
- His wife and daughter both taught tap dance as well as ballet.
- She studied acting at New York and received training in ballet, jazz and tap dance at Norfolk Civic Ballet, Old Dominion University and at HB Studios.
- He'll use tap-dance or mimic the jumping, flickering images from TV video clips, or he'll tell the story of Michelangelo's David - still inside its block of marble.
- This time, the ensemble will not review Russian and Latin classics but show the audience new material like Spanish Flamenco dance and Irish tap dance.
- As part of the program's commitment to a broad range of styles, the children were taught a tap dance to perform at one of the concerts.
- He was a national tap dance champion before switching to ballet at 17.
- Remember, though, that they are looking for talent so it can be absolutely anything from a tap dance to the whistling of a tune.
- But that is closely followed by a whirling tap dance by the actor who twirls chairs and leaps on bars with fantastic agility.
- And when she executes a tap-dance while seated at her stenographer's desk, in one of Rob Ashford's wittier pieces of choreography, she makes it look effortlessly elegant.
- Tap is another excellent way to build enthusiasm for dance; many boys know Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly and relate tap dance to their success.
- Remember that all jazz dance is essentially social dance set to jazz or jazz-influenced music, and that tap dance is a crucial part of the jazz dance scene, although it would not normally be taught by a jazz dance teacher.
- Dorothy Kloss, 81 and in her 10th season with the Follies, was teaching tap dance in Pasadena and babysitting her grandchildren after a long career headlining in nightclubs and theaters.
- Meanwhile, he performed an impromptu tap dance which drew great applause and hoots of appreciation from the audience.
- So I learned all kinds of dance - hip hop, tap dance and jazz by watching videos and television.
- But most special is that she is combining Brazilian music with American tap dance and she is maintaining the integrity of both.
- Hitting precise aggressive rhythm patterns with percussive attacks, his dynamic technique and lengthy performances reflected his dedication to tap dance.
- New York City's Second Annual Tap Festival, held July 8-14, creates a highly visible home for tap dance.
- Before she was grown, she would take up flute, violin, ballet, ice-skating, tap dance and French, and she would skip the first and seventh grades.
- There you have a basic beginning, tap dance continued to grow alongside the music that it was danced to.
- How was it that he'd persuaded me with a simple tap dance like that?

verb

no object Perform a tap dance.
he could tap-dance and juggle at the same time
Example sentencesExamples
- In ‘Playing My Self’, his 2001 show that toured the United States and other countries, he recited poetry, sang, and even tap-danced - all while playing the piano.
- Besides writing she is also known to tap dance like a professional and sing jazz well enough to earn money through it.
- In another set, a solo performer clapped and tap-danced in the spotlight, first casually, then faster and faster, until his hands and legs were a blur of motion.
- There's not a single moment in any of Miller's plays - at least that I can readily call to mind - in which a character could believably burst into song, start tap-dancing, or even break out in laughter.
- It amazes me and I longed to learn to tap dance just so I could tap dance all around my house and show up my friends.
- He also acknowledges a colourful supporting cast of influences, from Ally McLeod to Lionel Blair (who showed him how to tap-dance though claiming two left feet).
- He tap-danced, did a time step, and spun like a top.
- Hines, who won a Tony award for best actor in the musical Jelly's Last Jam, was born in New York and learned to tap-dance at the age of three.
- By tossing in too many forward-moving leaps and high kicks, you risk forcing her nimble feet to tap-dance even farther backward.
- My friends were joking with me that around Halloween they'd come kidnap me, tie me up and all, and put me in the middle of our auditorium at school and have Toby tap-dance on the stage and they'd all make weird noises to freak me out.
- She hasn't tap-danced since she was a lot younger, she's now 33, but it seems it's a bit like riding a bike, you soon get back in the swing.
- In the middle, dressed in top hat and tails, are the dancers, who would tap-dance to a medley of Fred Astaire classics.
- He and the ‘dogs’ learned to tap dance as boys in a garage behind his dance teacher's house in Newcastle, a steel town north of Sydney.
- Watching, and hearing, Astaire tap dance, it is easy to forget how monotonous the art form can be.
- "Aim for perfection," replied Fred, who then placed a coin on the floor and tap-danced around, over, even on the coin, hundreds of lightning steps.
- At nearly three years old, she knew they were ‘her shoes’, tap-dancing in them all over the shop before her mother agreed to buy them.
- Next thing we know, he'll be playing the kazoo and tap-dancing!
- The 76-year-old comedian grabbed a torch, pointed it at his feet, and started an impromptu tap-dance.
- I learned to sing with a Broadway voice, and to tap dance.
- The court is in recess as the judge tap-dances upon his desk in celebration of an excellent audio and visual DVD presentation to a fantastic, beautiful, silly and magical film.

Derivatives

tap dancer

nounˈtap ˌdɑːnsəˈtæp ˌdænsər

I've never seen that kind of superstar response given to a tap dancer.
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm a tap dancer and I was on a drill team for seven years.
- Born in Carmel, New York, she trained as a gymnast and a tap dancer before deciding to specialise in classical ballet.
- He even notated the rhythms of his music out loud, something all tap dancers do in their heads.
- If a tap dancer knocks your socks off and sounds like a combination of Fred Astaire and Bojangles, would you say he is anything more than a great tap dancer?

tap-dancing

nounˈtapˌdɑːnsɪŋ

Tap-dancing was not accepted as an audition piece, but he convinced the panel to let him tap anyway.
Example sentencesExamples
- But what really took me by surprise was the constant clickety-clackety sound of tap-dancing.
- His tap-dancing is poor, his singing mediocre, and his hairdressing skills are not well developed at all, so what else could he do to make a living, I ask?
- A cultural product of the slave trade, tap-dancing was derived from Irish jigs and Lancashire clog dancing but was heavily influenced by the musicality of African tribal dances.
- He is a high energy personality giving his all to tap-dancing and bringing tap-dancing back to the people, to the street, to the kids.

Definition of tap dance in US English:

tap dance

nounˈtap ˌdansˈtæp ˌdæns

A dance performed wearing shoes fitted with metal taps, characterized by rhythmical tapping of the toes and heels.
Example sentencesExamples
- As part of the program's commitment to a broad range of styles, the children were taught a tap dance to perform at one of the concerts.
- So I learned all kinds of dance - hip hop, tap dance and jazz by watching videos and television.
- Remember, though, that they are looking for talent so it can be absolutely anything from a tap dance to the whistling of a tune.
- There you have a basic beginning, tap dance continued to grow alongside the music that it was danced to.
- Remember that all jazz dance is essentially social dance set to jazz or jazz-influenced music, and that tap dance is a crucial part of the jazz dance scene, although it would not normally be taught by a jazz dance teacher.
- He was a national tap dance champion before switching to ballet at 17.
- Meanwhile, he performed an impromptu tap dance which drew great applause and hoots of appreciation from the audience.
- Before she was grown, she would take up flute, violin, ballet, ice-skating, tap dance and French, and she would skip the first and seventh grades.
- Tap is another excellent way to build enthusiasm for dance; many boys know Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly and relate tap dance to their success.
- Hitting precise aggressive rhythm patterns with percussive attacks, his dynamic technique and lengthy performances reflected his dedication to tap dance.
- But that is closely followed by a whirling tap dance by the actor who twirls chairs and leaps on bars with fantastic agility.
- This time, the ensemble will not review Russian and Latin classics but show the audience new material like Spanish Flamenco dance and Irish tap dance.
- She studied acting at New York and received training in ballet, jazz and tap dance at Norfolk Civic Ballet, Old Dominion University and at HB Studios.
- How was it that he'd persuaded me with a simple tap dance like that?
- New York City's Second Annual Tap Festival, held July 8-14, creates a highly visible home for tap dance.
- He'll use tap-dance or mimic the jumping, flickering images from TV video clips, or he'll tell the story of Michelangelo's David - still inside its block of marble.
- But most special is that she is combining Brazilian music with American tap dance and she is maintaining the integrity of both.
- His wife and daughter both taught tap dance as well as ballet.
- And when she executes a tap-dance while seated at her stenographer's desk, in one of Rob Ashford's wittier pieces of choreography, she makes it look effortlessly elegant.
- Dorothy Kloss, 81 and in her 10th season with the Follies, was teaching tap dance in Pasadena and babysitting her grandchildren after a long career headlining in nightclubs and theaters.

verbˈtap ˌdansˈtæp ˌdæns

[no object]tap-dance

Perform a tap dance.
he could tap-dance and juggle at the same time
Example sentencesExamples
- He tap-danced, did a time step, and spun like a top.
- I learned to sing with a Broadway voice, and to tap dance.
- At nearly three years old, she knew they were ‘her shoes’, tap-dancing in them all over the shop before her mother agreed to buy them.
- There's not a single moment in any of Miller's plays - at least that I can readily call to mind - in which a character could believably burst into song, start tap-dancing, or even break out in laughter.
- By tossing in too many forward-moving leaps and high kicks, you risk forcing her nimble feet to tap-dance even farther backward.
- "Aim for perfection," replied Fred, who then placed a coin on the floor and tap-danced around, over, even on the coin, hundreds of lightning steps.
- It amazes me and I longed to learn to tap dance just so I could tap dance all around my house and show up my friends.
- He also acknowledges a colourful supporting cast of influences, from Ally McLeod to Lionel Blair (who showed him how to tap-dance though claiming two left feet).
- Watching, and hearing, Astaire tap dance, it is easy to forget how monotonous the art form can be.
- My friends were joking with me that around Halloween they'd come kidnap me, tie me up and all, and put me in the middle of our auditorium at school and have Toby tap-dance on the stage and they'd all make weird noises to freak me out.
- The 76-year-old comedian grabbed a torch, pointed it at his feet, and started an impromptu tap-dance.
- She hasn't tap-danced since she was a lot younger, she's now 33, but it seems it's a bit like riding a bike, you soon get back in the swing.
- In another set, a solo performer clapped and tap-danced in the spotlight, first casually, then faster and faster, until his hands and legs were a blur of motion.
- Hines, who won a Tony award for best actor in the musical Jelly's Last Jam, was born in New York and learned to tap-dance at the age of three.
- In ‘Playing My Self’, his 2001 show that toured the United States and other countries, he recited poetry, sang, and even tap-danced - all while playing the piano.
- The court is in recess as the judge tap-dances upon his desk in celebration of an excellent audio and visual DVD presentation to a fantastic, beautiful, silly and magical film.
- In the middle, dressed in top hat and tails, are the dancers, who would tap-dance to a medley of Fred Astaire classics.
- Next thing we know, he'll be playing the kazoo and tap-dancing!
- He and the ‘dogs’ learned to tap dance as boys in a garage behind his dance teacher's house in Newcastle, a steel town north of Sydney.
- Besides writing she is also known to tap dance like a professional and sing jazz well enough to earn money through it.

单词	tap dance
释义	Definition of tap dance in English: tap dance noun A dance performed wearing shoes fitted with metal taps, characterized by rhythmical tapping of the toes and heels. Example sentencesExamples His wife and daughter both taught tap dance as well as ballet. She studied acting at New York and received training in ballet, jazz and tap dance at Norfolk Civic Ballet, Old Dominion University and at HB Studios. He'll use tap-dance or mimic the jumping, flickering images from TV video clips, or he'll tell the story of Michelangelo's David - still inside its block of marble. This time, the ensemble will not review Russian and Latin classics but show the audience new material like Spanish Flamenco dance and Irish tap dance. As part of the program's commitment to a broad range of styles, the children were taught a tap dance to perform at one of the concerts. He was a national tap dance champion before switching to ballet at 17. Remember, though, that they are looking for talent so it can be absolutely anything from a tap dance to the whistling of a tune. But that is closely followed by a whirling tap dance by the actor who twirls chairs and leaps on bars with fantastic agility. And when she executes a tap-dance while seated at her stenographer's desk, in one of Rob Ashford's wittier pieces of choreography, she makes it look effortlessly elegant. Tap is another excellent way to build enthusiasm for dance; many boys know Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly and relate tap dance to their success. Remember that all jazz dance is essentially social dance set to jazz or jazz-influenced music, and that tap dance is a crucial part of the jazz dance scene, although it would not normally be taught by a jazz dance teacher. Dorothy Kloss, 81 and in her 10th season with the Follies, was teaching tap dance in Pasadena and babysitting her grandchildren after a long career headlining in nightclubs and theaters. Meanwhile, he performed an impromptu tap dance which drew great applause and hoots of appreciation from the audience. So I learned all kinds of dance - hip hop, tap dance and jazz by watching videos and television. But most special is that she is combining Brazilian music with American tap dance and she is maintaining the integrity of both. Hitting precise aggressive rhythm patterns with percussive attacks, his dynamic technique and lengthy performances reflected his dedication to tap dance. New York City's Second Annual Tap Festival, held July 8-14, creates a highly visible home for tap dance. Before she was grown, she would take up flute, violin, ballet, ice-skating, tap dance and French, and she would skip the first and seventh grades. There you have a basic beginning, tap dance continued to grow alongside the music that it was danced to. How was it that he'd persuaded me with a simple tap dance like that? verb no object Perform a tap dance. he could tap-dance and juggle at the same time Example sentencesExamples In ‘Playing My Self’, his 2001 show that toured the United States and other countries, he recited poetry, sang, and even tap-danced - all while playing the piano. Besides writing she is also known to tap dance like a professional and sing jazz well enough to earn money through it. In another set, a solo performer clapped and tap-danced in the spotlight, first casually, then faster and faster, until his hands and legs were a blur of motion. There's not a single moment in any of Miller's plays - at least that I can readily call to mind - in which a character could believably burst into song, start tap-dancing, or even break out in laughter. It amazes me and I longed to learn to tap dance just so I could tap dance all around my house and show up my friends. He also acknowledges a colourful supporting cast of influences, from Ally McLeod to Lionel Blair (who showed him how to tap-dance though claiming two left feet). He tap-danced, did a time step, and spun like a top. Hines, who won a Tony award for best actor in the musical Jelly's Last Jam, was born in New York and learned to tap-dance at the age of three. By tossing in too many forward-moving leaps and high kicks, you risk forcing her nimble feet to tap-dance even farther backward. My friends were joking with me that around Halloween they'd come kidnap me, tie me up and all, and put me in the middle of our auditorium at school and have Toby tap-dance on the stage and they'd all make weird noises to freak me out. She hasn't tap-danced since she was a lot younger, she's now 33, but it seems it's a bit like riding a bike, you soon get back in the swing. In the middle, dressed in top hat and tails, are the dancers, who would tap-dance to a medley of Fred Astaire classics. He and the ‘dogs’ learned to tap dance as boys in a garage behind his dance teacher's house in Newcastle, a steel town north of Sydney. Watching, and hearing, Astaire tap dance, it is easy to forget how monotonous the art form can be. "Aim for perfection," replied Fred, who then placed a coin on the floor and tap-danced around, over, even on the coin, hundreds of lightning steps. At nearly three years old, she knew they were ‘her shoes’, tap-dancing in them all over the shop before her mother agreed to buy them. Next thing we know, he'll be playing the kazoo and tap-dancing! The 76-year-old comedian grabbed a torch, pointed it at his feet, and started an impromptu tap-dance. I learned to sing with a Broadway voice, and to tap dance. The court is in recess as the judge tap-dances upon his desk in celebration of an excellent audio and visual DVD presentation to a fantastic, beautiful, silly and magical film. Derivatives tap dancer nounˈtap ˌdɑːnsəˈtæp ˌdænsər I've never seen that kind of superstar response given to a tap dancer. Example sentencesExamples I'm a tap dancer and I was on a drill team for seven years. Born in Carmel, New York, she trained as a gymnast and a tap dancer before deciding to specialise in classical ballet. He even notated the rhythms of his music out loud, something all tap dancers do in their heads. If a tap dancer knocks your socks off and sounds like a combination of Fred Astaire and Bojangles, would you say he is anything more than a great tap dancer? tap-dancing nounˈtapˌdɑːnsɪŋ Tap-dancing was not accepted as an audition piece, but he convinced the panel to let him tap anyway. Example sentencesExamples But what really took me by surprise was the constant clickety-clackety sound of tap-dancing. His tap-dancing is poor, his singing mediocre, and his hairdressing skills are not well developed at all, so what else could he do to make a living, I ask? A cultural product of the slave trade, tap-dancing was derived from Irish jigs and Lancashire clog dancing but was heavily influenced by the musicality of African tribal dances. He is a high energy personality giving his all to tap-dancing and bringing tap-dancing back to the people, to the street, to the kids. Definition of tap dance in US English: tap dance nounˈtap ˌdansˈtæp ˌdæns A dance performed wearing shoes fitted with metal taps, characterized by rhythmical tapping of the toes and heels. Example sentencesExamples As part of the program's commitment to a broad range of styles, the children were taught a tap dance to perform at one of the concerts. So I learned all kinds of dance - hip hop, tap dance and jazz by watching videos and television. Remember, though, that they are looking for talent so it can be absolutely anything from a tap dance to the whistling of a tune. There you have a basic beginning, tap dance continued to grow alongside the music that it was danced to. Remember that all jazz dance is essentially social dance set to jazz or jazz-influenced music, and that tap dance is a crucial part of the jazz dance scene, although it would not normally be taught by a jazz dance teacher. He was a national tap dance champion before switching to ballet at 17. Meanwhile, he performed an impromptu tap dance which drew great applause and hoots of appreciation from the audience. Before she was grown, she would take up flute, violin, ballet, ice-skating, tap dance and French, and she would skip the first and seventh grades. Tap is another excellent way to build enthusiasm for dance; many boys know Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly and relate tap dance to their success. Hitting precise aggressive rhythm patterns with percussive attacks, his dynamic technique and lengthy performances reflected his dedication to tap dance. But that is closely followed by a whirling tap dance by the actor who twirls chairs and leaps on bars with fantastic agility. This time, the ensemble will not review Russian and Latin classics but show the audience new material like Spanish Flamenco dance and Irish tap dance. She studied acting at New York and received training in ballet, jazz and tap dance at Norfolk Civic Ballet, Old Dominion University and at HB Studios. How was it that he'd persuaded me with a simple tap dance like that? New York City's Second Annual Tap Festival, held July 8-14, creates a highly visible home for tap dance. He'll use tap-dance or mimic the jumping, flickering images from TV video clips, or he'll tell the story of Michelangelo's David - still inside its block of marble. But most special is that she is combining Brazilian music with American tap dance and she is maintaining the integrity of both. His wife and daughter both taught tap dance as well as ballet. And when she executes a tap-dance while seated at her stenographer's desk, in one of Rob Ashford's wittier pieces of choreography, she makes it look effortlessly elegant. Dorothy Kloss, 81 and in her 10th season with the Follies, was teaching tap dance in Pasadena and babysitting her grandchildren after a long career headlining in nightclubs and theaters. verbˈtap ˌdansˈtæp ˌdæns [no object]tap-dance Perform a tap dance. he could tap-dance and juggle at the same time Example sentencesExamples He tap-danced, did a time step, and spun like a top. I learned to sing with a Broadway voice, and to tap dance. At nearly three years old, she knew they were ‘her shoes’, tap-dancing in them all over the shop before her mother agreed to buy them. There's not a single moment in any of Miller's plays - at least that I can readily call to mind - in which a character could believably burst into song, start tap-dancing, or even break out in laughter. By tossing in too many forward-moving leaps and high kicks, you risk forcing her nimble feet to tap-dance even farther backward. "Aim for perfection," replied Fred, who then placed a coin on the floor and tap-danced around, over, even on the coin, hundreds of lightning steps. It amazes me and I longed to learn to tap dance just so I could tap dance all around my house and show up my friends. He also acknowledges a colourful supporting cast of influences, from Ally McLeod to Lionel Blair (who showed him how to tap-dance though claiming two left feet). Watching, and hearing, Astaire tap dance, it is easy to forget how monotonous the art form can be. My friends were joking with me that around Halloween they'd come kidnap me, tie me up and all, and put me in the middle of our auditorium at school and have Toby tap-dance on the stage and they'd all make weird noises to freak me out. The 76-year-old comedian grabbed a torch, pointed it at his feet, and started an impromptu tap-dance. She hasn't tap-danced since she was a lot younger, she's now 33, but it seems it's a bit like riding a bike, you soon get back in the swing. In another set, a solo performer clapped and tap-danced in the spotlight, first casually, then faster and faster, until his hands and legs were a blur of motion. Hines, who won a Tony award for best actor in the musical Jelly's Last Jam, was born in New York and learned to tap-dance at the age of three. In ‘Playing My Self’, his 2001 show that toured the United States and other countries, he recited poetry, sang, and even tap-danced - all while playing the piano. The court is in recess as the judge tap-dances upon his desk in celebration of an excellent audio and visual DVD presentation to a fantastic, beautiful, silly and magical film. In the middle, dressed in top hat and tails, are the dancers, who would tap-dance to a medley of Fred Astaire classics. Next thing we know, he'll be playing the kazoo and tap-dancing! He and the ‘dogs’ learned to tap dance as boys in a garage behind his dance teacher's house in Newcastle, a steel town north of Sydney. Besides writing she is also known to tap dance like a professional and sing jazz well enough to earn money through it.
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