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

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

In some ways, though, that dance may resemble a box step—movement, surely, but largely ending up in the same place.

From Scientific American

He and Rachel the lawyer bond over big families and football; Christen the wedding videographer teaches him to box step; Jasmine G. tries to get some time with Nick, but he’s busy with a girl who didn’t bring Neil Lane on their first meeting.

From Time