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ice dance

noun

  1. any of a number of dances, mostly based on ballroom dancing, performed by a couple skating on ice
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ice dancer, noun
  • ice dancing, noun
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Example Sentences

The British pair had broken new ground in ice dance by moving away from the sport’s origins in ballroom dancing and the ballet-influenced style of the then-dominant Soviet Union.

They were the first pair not from the Soviet Union to win Olympic gold in ice dance.

Nine days hence lay a risky, risqué, gamble: a shot at Olympic ice dance gold which depended on a routine that bent the rules and challenged convention - a free dance number that could burn up like chiffon to a spark.

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"You know you are getting this type of lift, that they have to do that spin and that footwork," explains Dean of the modern-day ice dance scene.

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Madison Hubbell and ice dance partner Zach Donohue have both gotten married since the Beijing Games — Hubbell to Spanish ice dancer Adrian Diaz and Donohue to Australian dancer Chantelle Kerry.

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