ice dancing

American  

noun

1. a competitive ice-skating event in which a couple, using basic skating figures and not being permitted to use lifts, performs choreographed movements to music, based on traditional ballroom dances.

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Etymology

Origin of ice dancing

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Cizeron is bidding for a second consecutive Olympic gold having won the ice dancing title in Beijing four years ago with former partner Gabriella Papadakis.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

"But they don't want ice dancing to change radically, so they are ready to punish anyone else who tries to be different."

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2024

And, it’s fitting because the duo has fueled U.S. ice dancing over the past decade.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 28, 2023

The ice show was organized by Tatiana Navka, a 2006 Olympic ice dancing champion, who is the wife of Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022

Worse, she’s taken up ice dancing; she goes to classes at the local indoor rink, and tangos and waltzes in time to tinny music, holding hands with other women.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood