fox-trot

Examples

• All

• It is 1941, I am fifteen, and the nation has turned to new dance fads: the fox-trot and the jive.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Should we start with a fox-trot, maybe?

  Irreplaceable You (2018)

• I do a pretty mean fox trot.

  Dirty Dancing (2017)

• One of these days the fox trot may come back.

  Cactus Flower (1969)

• I did the tango and the fox trot

  How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2002)

• Off to my left, middle-aged women are doing the fox trot, most with women, some with men.

  Fiction book (2001)

• My parents whirled about in an athletic fox trot, their faces manic with laughter.

  Fiction book (2002)

• In the mid-twenties, a number of young women, hoping to achieve a more cosmopolitan look, cut off their traditional braids, began wearing shorter skirts, explored new ways of kissing, and learned new dance moves to the beat of the fox trot.

  Academic text (2017)

• When the music began to play, everyone joined in the fox-trot with joyful steps.

• At the ballroom, the couple glided elegantly across the floor as they danced the fox-trot.

Synonyms

F

foxtrot

vsfox-trot

9 7.4

A smooth ballroom dance with slow and quick steps

emphasizes alternating long and short steps with lively music

How Fast

to quickstep

7.2

fox-trot

3 7.7

to tango

11 3.9

to waltz

44 3.2

Surface Forms

Etymology