Definition of Dance

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Definition of Dance

Dance

To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.

To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.

To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.

The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.

A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.

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Dance Quotations

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
Wayne Dyer

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Kahlil Gibran

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
Friedrich Nietzsche

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
Confucius

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
Groucho Marx

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost

Dance Translations

dance in Afrikaans is dans
dance in Danish is bal
dance in Dutch is bal, danspartij
dance in Finnish is tanssiaiset
dance in French is danser, dansent, dansons, dansez, bal, surpat
dance in German is Tanz, tanzen, tanzen, Tanz
dance in Italian is ballare, pallone, ballo
dance in Norwegian is dans
dance in Spanish is danza, danzar, bailar, baile
dance in Swedish is dansa

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