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
The line dance, Parson said, was designed to be “fun and easy, something you could do in a chair if space was tight.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 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 scene featuring the cast line-dancing to the 1950s song The House of Bamboo has led to various imitations that have gone viral online.
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
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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