NOUN
- a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement
- syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba
- a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance
VERB
- dance the rhumba
How To Use rhumba In A Sentence
- The workouts here each feature one Latin dance style -- cha-cha, salsa, merengue, samba or rhumba. Do a little dance: Exercise DVDs make their moves
- The foxtrot is still danced every night of the week in hundreds of modern sequence dance clubs around the country, along with the waltz, tango, rhumba, cha cha, mambo, salsa, swing and so on.
- Looking on from my now four-year-old expertise, I watch with pride the basic steps of swing, cha-cha, rhumba, waltz, tango and other dances, and I feel like a new mother whose baby is learning to walk.
- Other influences on popular music include church music, gospel, Zairean rhumba, and South African mbaqanga and mbube.
- All the while, I'd be serenaded by the musicians in the street, who continue the long-standing tradition that has given the world rhumba, mambo, and son.
- Throughout the room, neon signs flash to announce the upcoming dance style: fox trot, triple swing, mambo, cha cha, tango, waltz, rock 'n' roll and rhumba.
- 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 Forester did a quick steel-crunching rhumba motion, the air bag engulfed Harry, and then the car settled. VAPOR TRAIL
- 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.
- She not only makes you believe she can sing, she teleports you around the world through the magic of song; with each number, you believe you're sitting under Paris skies, or snuggling beneath a wet palm tree on a rainy night in Rio, or dancing the rhumba in Havana to the accompaniment of an awkward sousaphonist. An All-Singing (and Swinging) Week