barn dance
Country square gathering
A barn dance is a social gathering featuring country or folk dancing, traditionally held in a barn or rustic setting.
The term covers various American folk dances—square dances, line dances, reels—typically performed to live fiddle music.
The community center hosts a barn dance every fall.
In British usage, barn dance often refers specifically to a type of country dance or the event itself.
Lively rural dance gathering
- reelWinding cylinder or dance
- jigSpirited folk dance
- two-stepFast paired ballroom dance
- polkaBouncy partnered folk step
waltz · do-si-do · promenade · swing your partner · clogging · heel-toe · caller · fiddle music
Lively rural dance gathering
- ceilidhScottish social dance gathering
- harvest festivalAutumn event thanking for crops
- community gatheringLocals uniting socially
- hayrideWagon ride through fields
potluck · social · jamboree · shindig · country fair · fundraiser · church social · grange hall
hoedown
Lively rural dance gathering
polka · waltz · do-si-do · promenade · swing your partner · clogging · heel-toe · caller · fiddle music · traditional
hoedown
Lively rural dance gathering
- ceilidhScottish social dance gathering
- harvest festivalAutumn event thanking for crops
- community gatheringLocals uniting socially
hayride · potluck · social · jamboree · shindig · country fair · fundraiser · church social · grange hall · picnic
- folk culturefolk customs, folk beliefs, folk costume, folk crafts, folk medicine
- dude ranchdude ranch, dude ranches, guest ranch, guest ranches, ranch stay
- rural Americanafarm, church, farmer, covered bridges, country stores
- British Folklorefairy, fairies, pixie, pixies, brownie
- festivitiesparty, parades, celebration, carnivals, festival
- partiesbirthday party, party, costume party, house party, dinner party
barn dancegala
Festive formal occasion
debutante ball · cotillion · grand ball · charity ball · charity gala
barn danceballroom dance
Formal coupled movement style
waltz · Viennese waltz · foxtrot · court dance · minuet
dance, barn, dancing, barns, dances, danced, barndoor, barn dances