square dancing

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   American country dancing in which couples form squares

   Synonymssquare dance

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Questions about square dancing

What does square dancing mean?

square dancing means "American country dancing in which couples form squares".

What is another word for square dancing?

Close synonyms include square 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 square dancing a common word?

square 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.