A square dance is a social event where people dance square dances. a type of traditional country dance in which four pairs of dancers face each other in a square, and someone calls out the movements they should do. Dance for sets of four couples standing in square formation. The most popular type of U.S. folk dance, it derived from the quadrille and was originally called a square dance to distinguish it from the contra, or longways, dance (for a double line of couples) and the round dance (for a circle of couples). The U.S. square dance progresses through specific patterns called or sung out to the dancers by a caller and accompanied by lively music played on instruments such as fiddle, banjo, accordion, guitar, and piano
{i} American country dance for four couples who form a square; country dance in which dancers dance in pairs or sets to lively music played on fiddles and a caller who calls out the steps