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foxtrot

[ UK /fˈɒkstɹɒt/ ]
[ US /ˈfɑkstɹɑt/ ]
VERB
  1. dance the foxtrot
NOUN
  1. a ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences

How To Use foxtrot In A Sentence

  • Each school can provide five pairs (plus one alternate) to dance in five different styles: swing, the tango, the rumba, the merengue, and the foxtrot.
  • The foxtrot is not a flashy dance; its motor impulse is more akin to clockworks than, say, the hip-driven stampede nature of the samba. Stars That Truly Dance
  • A whirling flash of sapphire suddenly rotated --- in a delirious foxtrot --- with Doc's own dizzy nimbus of gilded amber. BEHINDLINGS
  • Space on the night will be limited to leave room for the brave to foxtrot and quickstep.
  • She made it to the show's semi-finals with her professional dance partner, having learnt to dance the waltz, foxtrot, samba, rumba, jive and quickstep among others.
  • The waltz, foxtrot, tango and quickstep are danced in rapid-fire succession in each ballroom round while salsa steps up the beat to let Latin competitors loosen up a little and go through the paces of the rhumba, samba and cha cha.
  • The foxtrot is still danced every night of the week in hundreds of modern sequence dance clubs around the country, along with the waltz, quickstep, tango, rhumba, cha cha, jive, mambo, salsa, saunter, blues, swing and so on.
  • We waltzed and foxtrotted and ‘jitter-bugged’; the ‘twist’ and ‘rock and roll’ were to be the dances of our kid sisters and brothers and our children.
  • Several weekends ago on Governors Island, well over a thousand people were dancing to a 12-piece orchestra that played mostly foxtrots, shifting from red-hot stomps by Fletcher Henderson to smooth two-beat show tunes by George Gershwin. A Retro Jazz Movement With a Good Dance Beat
  • Mention ballroom dancing and most people think of smiling couples dressed in designer suits and glitzy dresses waltzing, quickstepping and foxtrotting across the hardwood.
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