n. 25B6; verb
he danced with her : sway, trip, twirl, whirl, pirouette, gyrate; informal bop, disco, shake a leg, hoof it, cut a rug, trip the light fantastic; N. Amer. informal get down.
little girls danced round me : CAPER, cavort, frisk, frolic, skip, prance, gambol, jig; leap, jump, hop, bounce.
flames danced in the fireplace : FLICKER, leap, dart, play, flit, quiver; twinkle, shimmer.
25B6; noun the school dance : BALL, discotheque; masquerade; N. Amer. prom, hoedown; informal disco, hop, bop. See lists here and at ballet .
Dances and Types of Dancing
allemande lambada
Apache Lambeth Walk
ballet lancers
ballroom ländler
barn dance lap dance
basse danse limbo
beguine Lindy Hop
belly dance lion dance
black bottom Madison
body popping malagueña
bolero mambo
boogaloo mashed potato
boogie maxixe
bop maypole dance
bossa nova mazurka
Boston merengue
bourrée Mexican hat
branle military two-step
break-dancing minuet
buck-and-wing moonstomp
bunny hug moonwalk
cachucha morris dance
cakewalk mosh
cancan musette
capoeira nautch
carioca old-time
cha-cha one-step
cha-cha-cha palais glide
chaconne pantsula
character dance pas de deux
charleston pas de quatre
circle dance pas de trois
clog dance paso doble
conga passepied
contradance pas seul
contredanse pata-pata
corroboree Paul Jones
Cossack dance pavane
cotillion polka
country dance polonaise
courante quadrille
csardas quickstep
cueca rain dance
cumbia reel
Dashing White Sergeant rigadoon
devil dance ring-shout
disco robotic dancing
do-si-do rock and roll
double shuffle ronde
ecossaise round dance
eightsome reel roundelay
excuse-me rumba
fan dance sakkie-sakkie
fandango salsa
farandole saltarello
farruca samba
flamenco saraband
fling seguidilla
folk dance sequence dance
formation dancing shag
foxtrot shake
frug Shango
galliard shimmy
gallopade shuffle
galop siciliano/siciliana
gavotte Sir Roger de Coverley
Gay Gordons skank
gigue slam dance
goombay snake dance
gopak soft-shoe shuffle
habanera square dance
haka stomp
hay strathspey
(Helston) floral dance strip the willow
(Helston) furry strut
Highland fling sun dance
hoedown sword dance
hokey-cokey sytarki
hora tambourin
hornpipe tango
hula-hula tap dance
hully gully tarantella
hustle tickey-draai
Irish jig torch
Irish reel turkey trot
jaleo twist
jazz dance twosome reel
jig two-step
jitterbug veleta
jive vogueing
jota volta
juba waltz
Kathak war dance
Kathakali Watusi
kazachoc zambra
kolo zapateado
kwela