ice dancing

noun

: a sport in which ice-skating pairs perform to music routines similar to ballroom dances

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The Williamstown Theatre Festival's lineup also includes The Gig, based on Williams’ novel Moise and the World of Reason, which will be choreographed by U.S. ice dancing champions and Olympic medalists Alex and Maia Shibutani and will be performed on an ice rink. Sharareh Drury, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025 The same could be said for Chock and Bates in ice dancing. Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2025 Tune in on Friday to NBC to catch the ice dancing action. Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025 Among them were Sean Kay and Angela Yang, an ice dancing pair from Delaware that had been undefeated in the juvenile division this year. Julie Bosman, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ice dancing

Word History

First Known Use

1878, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of ice dancing was in 1878

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“Ice dancing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20dancing. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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