as in proms
a social gathering for dancing
who are you taking to the dance on Saturday night?
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as in steps
to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music
she can't resist dancing to her favorite rock bands
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as in darts
to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements
the lithe boxer danced around the ring, staying just out of the reach of his opponent
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Recent Examples of dances
Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
The building also housed a movie theater, a basketball court and had space for dances and entertainment on stage.
—Don Sproul, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Those involved in the parade rolled by in a colorful blur on roller skates, performed flag dances and wielded bubble makers.
—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 8 Sep. 2025
Bodies together become ensemble dances, and on and on.
—Rebecca Coffey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
KPopMinneCon will feature music performances, dances, influencers, beauty and food vendors and merchandise.
—Staff Report, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
Expect sing-alongs, dances, interactive crafts and 10 enchanting performances designed to captivate kids and parents alike.
—Tiffani Jackson Skinner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
With folk dances and white and blue flags, the crowning of the new queen was a celebration for Nicaraguans residing in Miami.
—Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
This week, Drake stokes the anticipation for his next album with a new track featuring Cash Cobain, psych-pop kingpin Tame Impala floats back into our world, and Lady Gaga dances with the dead.
—Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2025
In the final seconds of the Sex and the City revival series, Carrie dances down the hallway of her Gramercy Park townhome in a flirty outfit while Barry White plays, embracing her singledom.
—Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
Barbara Keating dances with her brother, Jack Kinsey, in 1995.
—Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
The building also housed a movie theater, a basketball court and had space for dances and entertainment on stage.
—Don Sproul, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Those involved in the parade rolled by in a colorful blur on roller skates, performed flag dances and wielded bubble makers.
—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 8 Sep. 2025
Bodies together become ensemble dances, and on and on.
—Rebecca Coffey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
KPopMinneCon will feature music performances, dances, influencers, beauty and food vendors and merchandise.
—Staff Report, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
Expect sing-alongs, dances, interactive crafts and 10 enchanting performances designed to captivate kids and parents alike.
—Tiffani Jackson Skinner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
With folk dances and white and blue flags, the crowning of the new queen was a celebration for Nicaraguans residing in Miami.
—Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
This week, Drake stokes the anticipation for his next album with a new track featuring Cash Cobain, psych-pop kingpin Tame Impala floats back into our world, and Lady Gaga dances with the dead.
—Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
The flame also dances back and forth for an even more convincing look.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2025
In the final seconds of the Sex and the City revival series, Carrie dances down the hallway of her Gramercy Park townhome in a flirty outfit while Barry White plays, embracing her singledom.
—Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dances
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Portraying the ghost of Hamlet’s father at the play’s debut, his face and body covered in chalky white paint, his Shakespeare steps through the looking glass and becomes his own tragic player, strutting and fretting his hour upon the stage.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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Harry is more succinct when Dex steps off the elevator.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Make the 35-minute drive out to Natick to visit Bosse, a state-of-the-art indoor facility with 21 pickleball courts, a golf simulator and darts lounge.—
Kim Foley MacKinnon,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Lawrence Dow darts all over the Metroplex as a jack-of-all-trades, and Darren Lauber helps Charles manage the firehose of high school sports stories, results and stats.—
Jim Barnes
August 22,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Aug. 2025
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The film has played more than 100 festivals internationally and is distributed by Kino Lorber.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
12 Sep. 2025
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Counting The Life of Chuck, which premiered at festivals in 2024 but opened wide this June, four of King's stories will have hit the box office by the time 2025 comes to a close, three of which—Chuck, The Monkey, and this week's The Long Walk—were first-time adaptations.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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The episode’s first half feels like the work of a misguided pest, and Beto’s filmmaking, which flits between several different styles and cuts between multiple angles sometimes within the course of one interview segment, doesn’t help.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
28 Aug. 2025
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The relative lack of attention toward Hortman’s assassination has been pointed to by some left-wing figures as evidence of hypocrisy from those on the Right, particularly those who were angry over the celebrations of some left-wing social media users over Kirk’s death.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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There are many tastings, celebrations, parties and events with food and music as well.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Because global air travel shuffles millions of people around the world daily, an outbreak of a very contagious disease anywhere can become a threat everywhere.—
Amy E. Stambach,
The Conversation,
12 Aug. 2025
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With Noni Madueke doubled up on out wide, Zubimendi shuffles backwards to receive the pass, and then fires a pass into Martin Odegaard, breaking the first two lines of the opposition’s 4-4-2 defensive block.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
11 Aug. 2025
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That’s the message from senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who has put the boot into the nation’s top football leagues for booking international entertainers to lead their grand final festivities.—
Lars Brandle,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
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As usual, Entertainment Weekly will be front and center for all the festivities with PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly's Red Carpet Live show.—
Rebecca Detken,
EW.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The only actor who looks at home here is Chloë Sevigny as Kim, the resident Yale Philosophy Department psychotherapist, who struts through the movie in a series of baggy suits and a curly bowl haircut that wouldn’t be out of place on the Beverly Hillbillies’ Miss Jane Hathaway.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
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But the Maginot instead crashes in a part of southeast Asia that’s the dominion of Prodigy, a corporation founded by Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin), an overgrown child obsessed with Peter Pan, who struts around his research facility barefoot in pajamas.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Dances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dances. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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