a dance to country music in which dancers line up in a row without partners and follow a choreographed pattern of steps.
a dance performed by a line of people.
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She also attended a dance party at Edenwald, in which 15 or so Goucher students taught the retirees a line dance to “Cotton Eye Joe” by Rednex.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
In the community centre, a group of mainly elderly people are talking and laughing and being led in a line dance to the song Candy by Cameo.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
The song came with its own signature line dance inspired by the Chicago stepping movement.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2023
Tamayo and Donahue were out on the wooden dance floor, watching the older members do the Elvira line dance and trying their best to follow along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
It’s the theater boys—Simon, Martin, Cal, and a few others—and they’re doing what appears to be a country western line dance.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
Price got into the sex-education field after years as a high school teacher and a second career as both an aerobics and line-dance instructor and a writer on health and fitness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
They line-dance to a Blondie song at the local bar.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
Will people learn line-dance moves from an anime?
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2020
As hip-hop blared over the speakers, groups of women gleefully line-danced to Ciara and Missy Elliot tunes under giant American flags.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2024
The girls curtsied and line-danced in their party dresses.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2015
The air smelled of spruce, and women in rubber muck boots line-danced in the frozen parking lot.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2013
The bar’s patrons line-danced in the street — forcing the police to shut down Halsted and re-route C.T.A. buses around Greektown — to celebrate the Greek team’s 2004 European soccer championship.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2010
From New York City to Chicago to Portland, bars are hosting line-dancing events and live music performances that draw patrons dressed in cowboy boots, Wranglers and the occasional Stetson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
A racial reckoning with the black roots of American folk music, its 27 tracks embrace everything from line-dancing to psychedelic rock, with guest appearances from Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Post Malone.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2024
Released on Feb. 3, it already has two singles - the line-dancing upbeat country number "Giddy Up!" and the aspirational and catchy "Waking Up Dreaming."
From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2023
Everyone had followed Travolta instead, to “Urban Cowboy” and line-dancing around mechanical bulls.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022
Chris, line-dancing with a cute girl at Stagecoach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
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