happy dance
Celebratory spontaneous movement
A happy dance is a spontaneous, often silly display of physical excitement when something goes well—jumping, wiggling, pumping fists, or flailing limbs.
The dance is typically brief and unselfconscious: I did a little happy dance when I saw my grades.
The term also works as a verb: She happy-danced around the kitchen after getting the job offer.
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
- joyIntense positive emotion
- victoryDefeating an opponent
- victory lapCelebratory post-competition circuit
- wiggleMove with small twists
shimmy · groove · elated · triumphant · excited · jig · boogie · twirl · glee · jump for joy · fist pump · jumping · bouncing · spontaneous · let loose · silly · gleeful · touchdown
happy dancefuneral march
Music accompanying a coffin
death march · dirge · weeping · slumped shoulders · sobbing
happy dancefacepalm
Gesture showing exasperation
sinking feeling · deflation · slump · tantrum · rage quit
happy dancetantrum
Uncontrolled display of frustration
meltdown · crying fit · breakdown · sinking feeling · face-palm
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