two step

Quick sliding dance

Two-step is a ballroom dance characterized by a quick-quick-slow pattern, popular in country-western settings: They two-stepped across the dance floor.

The term extends to any process with exactly two stages: a two-step verification process, two-step authentication.

As a verb, to two-step is to perform the dance or move with similar rhythmic steps.

Related

twirl · partner · honky tonk · dance hall · saloon · cowboy · fiddle · steel guitar · shuffle · spin · dip · rhythm · barn dance · jukebox · western · stomp · slide · promenade

Categories
Opposites
dance rhythm/meter

two stepwaltz

Dance in three-quarter time

Viennese waltz · minuet · mazurka · polonaise · jig

dance complexity/formality

two stepballet

Classical dance on pointe

tango · Viennese waltz · paso doble · quickstep · foxtrot

dance style/culture

two stepflamenco

Rhythmic Spanish dance style

ballet · tango · samba · salsa · bhangra

Family

two, step, twos, steps, stepped, stepping, stepper, steppers, twice

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Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G