FOLK DANCING

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Meaning:

A style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts)

Synonyms:

folk dance; folk dancing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("folk dancing" is a kind of...):

social dancing (dancing as part of a social occasion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "folk dancing"):

farandole (a lively dance from Provence; all the dancers join hands and execute various figures)

mazurka (a Polish national dance in triple time)

polka (a Bohemian dance with 3 steps and a hop in fast time)

morris dance; morris dancing (any of various English folk dances performed by dancers in costume)

sword dance; sword dancing (any of various dances by men who step nimbly over swords or flourish them in the air)

hornpipe (a British solo dance performed by sailors)

jig (any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping)

contra danse; contradance; contredanse; country-dance; country dancing (a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line)

ring dance; round dance (a folk dance; dancers form a circle)

rhumba; rumba (a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement)

Derivation:

folk dance (perform a folk-dance)