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/dɑːns/ · noun
A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction..
I do a dance when she plays the drums!
He does the Fortnite dance with his friends in school.
"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places.[…]"
The dance we had in August 2008 is one of the greatest moments of my life!
But, he continued, "the experience of the Peking Municipal Communist Youth League shows that, as long as dance parties are organized and supervised well by the work units concerned and these units organize their own sentries, as long as the people attending these dances are given a little coaching in advance on what is meant by normal socializing and recreation, and as long as these dances are organized, led and guided properly, there will be no incidents."
They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
So how much longer are we gonna do this dance?
He that would watch the king's hares must not drag himself along as if he was a lazybones with soles of lead to his boots, or like a fly on a tar-brush, for when the hares began to scamper about on the hill-sides it was quite another dance than lying at home and catching fleas with mittens on.
Use dance when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dance means A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction..
Common synonyms include dance, throw shapes, do the deed, get some.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I do a dance when she plays the drums!
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