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  • line dance
    line dance
    noun
    a dance to country music in which dancers line up in a row without partners and follow a choreographed pattern of steps.
  • line-dance
    line-dance
    verb (used without object)
    to participate in a line dance.

line dance

1 American  

noun

  1. a dance to country music in which dancers line up in a row without partners and follow a choreographed pattern of steps.

  2. a dance performed by a line of people.


line-dance 2 American  
[lahyn-dans] / ˈlaɪnˌdæns /

verb (used without object)

line-danced, line-dancing
  1. to participate in a line dance.


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The Duffys may line dance through Texas, but you will learn more about that state’s history and culture by watching “Landman” or “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.”

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

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

At the “pressure test” events, they lurk nearby, observing, but sometimes participating — Kelly will pole and line dance; London will get a tattoo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025

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

Videos on social media show dozens of people line-dancing inside the rodeo arena, before the animal charged through the crowd.

From BBC ● May 29, 2023

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

Four dozen people played bingo in one room while another two dozen people paced through a line-dancing class.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

Everyone had followed Travolta instead, to “Urban Cowboy” and line-dancing around mechanical bulls.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022

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