round dance

Questions about round dance

What does round dance mean?

round dance means "a folk dance; dancers form a circle". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for round dance?

Close synonyms include ring dance, round dancing. 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 round dance a common word?

round dance is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.