ice dancing

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ice dancing¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

The IOC at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics gave gold medals to both Russia and Canada instead of taking the gold medal from the Russian pairs skaters after French skating judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne told her fellow judges that she put the Russian pair first in a backroom deal to get the Russian judge’s vote for the French team in the ice dancing competition later in the Olympics.

From Los Angeles Times

After a break from competitive ice dancing, then a strictly amateur sport, to pursue professional skating careers, Torvill and Dean also won bronze at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer.

From Seattle Times

There were the traditionalists, who believed in respecting ice dancing's ballroom roots.

From BBC

"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

Now those American athletes — the singles skaters Nathan Chen, Karen Chen and Vincent Zhou; the pair team of Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier; and the ice dancing teams Madison Chock and Evan Bates and Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue — will get their medals.

From New York Times