tap dance

1. 1.

   a dance step tapped out audibly with the feet

   Synonymstap dancing

   Broaderstep dancing

   Narrowersoft-shoebuck-and-wingclog dance

1. 1.

   perform a tap dance

   Broaderdance

   dancing · dance

Questions about tap dance

What does tap dance mean?

tap dance means "a dance step tapped out audibly with the feet". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for tap dance?

Close synonyms include tap 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 tap dance a common word?

tap 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.