Sashay vs. Dance — What's the Difference?

Walk in an ostentatious yet casual manner, typically with exaggerated movements of the hips and shoulders

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

Perform the sashay

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

(in American square dancing) a figure in which partners circle each other by taking sideways steps

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

To walk or proceed, especially in an easy or casual manner.

To move or leap about excitedly.

To strut or flounce in a showy manner

To bob up and down or move about rapidly

To perform the chassé in dancing.

To appear to flash or twinkle

To move in a sideways manner.

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

A chassé.

To engage in or perform (a dance).

An excursion; an outing.

To lead (someone) in a dance.

A figure in square dancing in which partners circle each other by taking sideways steps.

To cause to move up and down quickly or lightly

A chassé.

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

A sequence of sideways steps in a circle in square dancing.

The act or an instance of dancing

(intransitive) To walk casually, showily or in a flirty manner; to strut, swagger or flounce.

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

(intransitive) To chassé when dancing.

The art of dancing

(intransitive) To move sideways.

A party or gathering of people for dancing.

A square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps

(Zoology) An act of communication by dancing

(ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading

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

A journey taken for pleasure;

A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.

Move sideways

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

To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others;

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

Perform a chasse step, in ballet

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;