square dance

1. verb, participate in a square dance (COD); 2. also noun, ‘square dancing’

1.
“My father danced, and mother danced a lot, and square danced and so on.”

“There was a lot of good dancers that could really put on a show doing the jive and jitterbug, as they called it then. I never was good at it. I could waltz or I could foxtrot, and square dance.”

“We used to square dance outside at recess.”

“At the house parties that we hosted or went around to, it was always records. But we would have square danced. There would be one record that probably went from house to house.”

2.
“Oh, it was all square dancing most of it, yeah. Well a little bit of waltzing but mostly square dances.”