Dancing vs. Running — What's the Difference?

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

Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. Running is a type of gait characterized by an aerial phase in which all feet are above the ground (though there are exceptions).

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

The act or an instance of running.

To move or leap about excitedly.

The power or ability to run.

To bob up and down or move about rapidly

(Sports) The exercise or sport of someone who runs.

To appear to flash or twinkle

Ongoing over a period of time

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

Set in continuous or unbroken lines

To engage in or perform (a dance).

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To lead (someone) in a dance.

In a consecutive way

To cause to move up and down quickly or lightly

Present participle of run.

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

Moving or advancing at a run.

The act or an instance of dancing

Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.

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

Present, current.

The art of dancing

Flowing; easy; cursive.

A party or gathering of people for dancing.

Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.

(Zoology) An act of communication by dancing

Having a continuous design or pattern.

The activity of taking part in a dance.

Consecutive much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below.

(historical) A dance club in France.

(botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.

Present participle of dance

(medicine) Discharging pus.

From Dance.

Discharging snot or mucus.

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

(informal) Consecutively; in a row.

The action of the verb to run.

The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.

That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.

The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.

(colloquial) The act of running errands.

(colloquial) Approaching; about; roughly. en

Moving or advancing by running.

Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; - said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.

Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.

Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation.

Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine.

Discharging pus; as, a running sore.

The act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running was slow.

That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as, the first running of a still.

The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.

(American football) a play in which a player runs with the ball;

The act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace;

The state of being in operation;

The act of administering or being in charge of something;

The act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track

Moving quickly on foot;

(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream;

Continually repeated over a period of time;

Of advancing the ball by running;

Executed or initiated by running;

Measured lengthwise;

(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing;