Dance vs. Boogie — What's the Difference?

Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value.

Boogie is a repetitive, swung note or shuffle rhythm, "groove" or pattern used in blues which was originally played on the piano in boogie-woogie music. The characteristic rhythm and feel of the boogie was then adapted to guitar, double bass, and other instruments.

To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.

To dance to rock music.

(Zoology) To perform a specialized set of movements to communicate chiefly with other members of the same species.

To get going; leave

To move or leap about excitedly.

To move quickly

To bob up and down or move about rapidly

Strongly rhythmic rock music.

To appear to flash or twinkle

Boogie-woogie.

(Informal) To speak or behave in an evasive or vacillating manner

(informal) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.

To engage in or perform (a dance).

A black person.

To lead (someone) in a dance.

(informal) A style of swing dance.

To cause to move up and down quickly or lightly

A large, organised skydiving event.

A series of motions and steps, such as the waltz or tango, usually performed to music.

(intransitive) To dance a boogie.

The act or an instance of dancing

To move, walk, leave, exit.

The music composed or played for a certain kind of dance or for a particular dance.

An instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano).

The art of dancing

A black person; - offensive and disparaging.

A party or gathering of people for dancing.

To do a lively dance, often with the two partners not touching, to the accompaniment of rock music.

(Zoology) An act of communication by dancing

An instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)

A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.

A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.

(uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.

(uncountable) A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.

A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.

(figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.

Any strenuous or difficult movement, action, or task.

(heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.

(apiology) A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.

The death throes of a hanged person.

(intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.

(intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.

(transitive) To perform the steps to.

(transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.

To make love or have sex.

To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees.

To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged.

To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.

To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.

To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.

The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.

A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.

An artistic form of nonverbal communication

A party of people assembled for dancing

Taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music

A party for social dancing

Move in a graceful and rhythmical way;

Move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance;

Skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways;