Definition of "dance" []

• To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures. (verb-intransitive)
• To leap or skip about excitedly. (verb-intransitive)
• To appear to flash or twinkle: eyes that danced with merriment. (verb-intransitive)
• Informal To appear to skip about; vacillate: danced around the issue. (verb-intransitive)
• To bob up and down. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Emails in inbox right now: 31 *happy dance, happy dance, oh, the happy dance*"
• "The _Conjunctive_ expresses the _Action_ or _Passion_ conditionally and is always joined with the _Indicative_, or the same _Mood_; as _I will love you, if you wou'd love me_; _I wou'd dance, if you wou'd dance_."
• "For convenience of reference these types of dance may be called _whirling, circling_, and the _figure eight dance_."