Synonyms of dancing

dancing

verb

present participle of dance

1

as in stepping

to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music

she can't resist dancing to her favorite rock bands

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stepping
• waltzing
• strutting
• shuffling
• prancing
• footing (it)
• hoofing (it)
• boogying
• jigging
• bopping
• tap-dancing
• tripping
• jitterbugging
• tangoing
• shagging
• tripping the light fantastic
• shaking a leg
• shimmying
• jiving
• twisting
• treading
• fox-trotting
• mamboing
• gavotting
• polkaing

2

as in darting

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• darting
• flitting
• fluttering
• flicking
• flying
• flickering
• flirting
• scurrying
• zipping
• wandering
• sailing
• flittering
• speeding
• sprinting
• skipping
• roaming
• zooming
• scuttling
• scampering
• dashing
• zinging
• shooting
• skittering
• meandering
• scudding
• rambling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hanging
• floating
• hovering

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dancing

The film features drunken sing-alongs and dancing with abandon in the family kitchen. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Eventually a fourth joins the group, dancing with a tiny, glowing stick figure seemingly attached to its belly. — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Swank shared a video showing four glow-in-the-dark stick figures dancing, one of whom is pregnant. — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026

Swank shared the news in a creative Instagram video of herself, husband Philip Schneider, and their three-year-old twins dancing in the dark with glow sticks affixed to their bodies. — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2026

Gonzales began dancing Mexican folklórico at just 3 years old in Puebla, Mexico. — Ashley Paul, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

And then the other thing was that my friends who were in the audience told me that people in the audience were making out, not only dancing, but actually making out. — Shaad D’souza, Pitchfork, 7 Oct. 2026

But dancers take the stage too because when Cubans play music, there will assuredly be dancing. — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 30 Sep. 2026

Schoonmaker’s inventiveness produced one of the movie’s most memorable scenes, where Turturro and Eric Stoltz’s characters talk while dancing. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2026