pole dancing

noun

: usually solo dancing performed while using a fixed vertical pole as a prop

pole dance noun or intransitive verb

pole dancer noun

Examples of pole dancing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Gothams have always prided themselves on being the starting gun for awards season, but in recent years, an event created to spotlight independent film has leaned further into its status as an essential stop on the Oscars pole dance. —Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025

Director and photographer Jordan Hemingway brings the collection to life in a campaign starring athletes from gymnastics, pole dancing, cycling and calisthenics, but with all their usual apparatus removed. —Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025

Apparently, 3-year-old Shadow has been a natural at pole dancing since her very first climb, requiring no training or coaching. —Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 12 July 2025

What is your perspective on why pole dancing seems to elicit these kinds of comments? —Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for pole dancing

• refinancing
• advancing
• enhancing
• entrancing
• financing
• romancing
• chancing
• glancing
• lancing
• prancing