folk dancing

Questions about folk dancing

What does folk dancing mean?

folk dancing means "a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts)".

What is another word for folk dancing?

Close synonyms include folk dance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is folk dancing a common word?

folk dancing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.