tap shoes
Metal-soled dancers' footwear
Tap shoes are shoes fitted with metal plates on the toe and heel, designed to make rhythmic clicking sounds when the dancer strikes the floor.
The plates themselves are called taps.
Tap shoes are essential equipment for tap dancing, where the feet become percussion instruments: She laced up her tap shoes for rehearsal.
- dancingRhythmic bodily motion
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- metalHard conductive solid
- metal platesFlat sheets of alloy
- clickingMaking short sharp sounds
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