English noun: folk dancing | |||
1. | folk dancing (act) a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts) | ||
Synonyms | folk dance | ||
Broader (hypernym) | social dancing | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | contra danse, contradance, contredanse, country dancing, country-dance, farandole, hornpipe, jig, mazurka, morris dance, morris dancing, polka, rhumba, ring dance, round dance, rumba, sword dance, sword dancing | ||