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.
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
“I walk 10,000 steps a day. I teach line dance classes twice a week. I have my life back.”
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2024
The song came with its own signature line dance inspired by the Chicago stepping movement.
From BBC • Aug. 8, 2023
In the engine room below, it sounded like Leo and the others were doing an Irish line dance with anvils tied to their feet.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
