sword dance in English

noun
1
a dance in which the performers brandish swords or step around swords laid on the ground, originally as a tribal preparation for war or as a victory celebration.
Competitors danced the Highland fling, the sword dance , the sean triubhais, the Highland reel, the sailors hornpipe, the Irish Jig and other dances, preferably to the music of the bagpipe.

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1. All set to perform the sword dance?

2. Let me perform a sword dance to spice up the Hongmen Banquet

3. The swords may have been ceremonial, or they may have been used in an acrobatic ritual sword dance.

4. The manufacturing procedure of squeezing dye from a tube and making shape by a knife is his exciting movements of a sword dance and a masque dance.

5. Fan Zeng then summoned Xiang Yu's cousin Xiang Zhuang, instructing him to pretend to perform a sword dance to entertain the guests and find an opportunity to assassinate Liu Bang.

6. There are various national and regional folk activities, participated in to this day, such as Morris dancing, Maypole dancing, Rapper sword in the North East, Long Sword dance in Yorkshire, Mummers Plays, bottle-kicking in Leicestershire, and cheese-rolling at Cooper's Hill.