box step

American  

noun

1. a basic dance step in which the feet move as if forming a square or rectangle.

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Example Sentences

After learning a box step or two, Amir was cast as a Munchkin and his love of the stage began.

From BBC

Shoe box: Step into a 95-square-foot Tokyo apartment.

From New York Times

Or the time Camilla tried to teach me the box step; or the time Bunny turned the boat over—with Henry and Francis in it—because he thought he saw a water snake?

From Literature

All the PTA mothers looked forward to sewing dresses, teaching their sons to do the box step, and giving assemblies on how sixth graders are expected to behave at the dance.

From Literature

Quotidian but gripping, the images show an ardent daughter peering over her mother’s shoulders at an open book, copying her box step on a classroom’s makeshift dance floor, and shadowing her perambulations in a sunlit garden, behind the teethed leaves of an agave plant.

From The New Yorker