circle dance

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circle dance (plural circle dances)

  1. A style of social dance done in a circle, semicircle or a curved line to musical accompaniment.
    Synonym: chain dance
    Coordinate term: round dance
    • 1950, Lloyd Shaw, The Round Dance Book: A Century of Waltzing, page 371:
      The circle dance is characterized not only by the circle formation (which other dances may share) but by the fact that couples or individuals keep progressing around the circle and dancing with new couples or individuals […]

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