Dancing

dancing
    n 1: taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time
         to music [syn: {dancing}, {dance}, {terpsichore},
         {saltation}]
    

Dance \Dance\ (d[.a]ns), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Danced}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Dancing}.] [F. danser, fr. OHG. dans[=o]n to draw;
   akin to dinsan to draw, Goth. apinsan, and prob. from the
   same root (meaning to stretch) as E. thin. See {Thin}.]
   1. To move with measured steps, or to a musical
      accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company
      with others, with a regulated succession of movements,
      (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap
      rhythmically.
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            Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance. --Wither.
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            Good shepherd, what fair swain is this
            Which dances with your daughter?      --Shak.
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   2. To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion;
      to caper; to frisk; to skip about.
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            Then, 'tis time to dance off.         --Thackeray.
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            More dances my rapt heart
            Than when I first my wedded mistress saw. --Shak.
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            Shadows in the glassy waters dance.   --Byron.
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            Where rivulets dance their wayward round.
                                                  --Wordsworth.
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   {To dance on a rope}, or {To dance on nothing}, to be hanged.
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Dancing \Dan"cing\, p. a. & vb. n.
   from {Dance}.
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   {Dancing girl}, one of the women in the East Indies whose
      profession is to dance in the temples, or for the
      amusement of spectators. There are various classes of
      dancing girls.

   {Dancing master}, a teacher of dancing.

   {Dancing school}, a school or place where dancing is taught.
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59 Moby Thesaurus words for "dancing":
      aflicker, balletic, beaming, beatific, beatified, bickering,
      blessed, blinking, blissful, capering, cheerful, chirping, dance,
      desultory, flashing, flicker, flickering, flickering light,
      flickery, flicky, flushed with joy, flutter, fluttering, fluttery,
      gay, glad, glancing light, glowing, guttering, happy, joyful,
      joyous, lambency, lambent, laughing, leaping, light show, play,
      play of light, playing, purring, quiver, quivering, quivery,
      radiant, singing, smiling, smirking, sparkling, spluttering,
      sputtering, sputtery, starry-eyed, stroboscopic, terpsichorean,
      thrice happy, unsteady, wavering, wavery