Name a dance move (named moves)

November 12, 2026 · Daily Dive #120

Explore 2,313 recorded answers and their points for question 5 on November 12, 2026.

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2,313 recorded names on November 12, 2026, 2,034 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Sweep across social partner dancing, line and formation dancing, street and club styles, stage choreography and the named figures printed in competitive syllabi. Anything with a name people actually use for a repeatable movement counts, from a single step to a whole routine; freestyle improvisation, unnamed gestures and broad dance styles do not.

2,313 recorded answers2,034 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut2,03385 pts
  • Rare24360 pts
  • Schooler3030 pts
  • Plankton610 pts
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Recorded answers

2,313 recorded answers

How to approach it

Sort your candidates into columns before you start reeling them off: partner dancing, line and formation work, street and club styles, stage and screen choreography, plus the short routines that travel across feeds. Empty one column before moving to the next, since each carries its own naming grammar and a vocabulary of figures that outsiders rarely hear. When obvious entries dry up, switch from recall to reconstruction: ask what a teacher would call a given shape, what a caller would shout, what a caption writer would put under a clip. Test every candidate against the wording, because a name in real use qualifies while an elegant description you invented does not, and hold spelling variants and translated titles in reserve, since the reveal rewards near misses but never forgives something that was never named.

Get a hint

Almost every dance tradition names its figures, so the pool runs far wider than the styles that surface first; work through decades, regions and settings instead of settling on one scene.

A little more

Notice how the labels get made: some describe the shape or animal the body imitates, some count beats aloud, some borrow the track that popularised them, some simply name the footwork mechanics.

One step further

Beyond the well-known scenes, work the long tail: two-word figures from partner-dance syllabi, step lists traded between line dancers, and short routines that travel across feeds, including titles built from numbers or counted beats.

Reveal answers 2,313
  • Double reverse spinDeep Cut85points
  • Double shakeDeep Cut85points
  • Double shuffleDeep Cut85points
  • Double Star ThruDeep Cut85points
  • Double telemarkDeep Cut85points
  • Double ToeDeep Cut85points
  • Double wingDeep Cut85points
  • Down di flankDeep Cut85points
  • Down the HallDeep Cut85points
  • DragDeep Cut85points
  • Drag hesitationDeep Cut85points
  • Drag SlideDeep Cut85points
  • DrawbackDeep Cut85points
  • Drive ByDeep Cut85points
  • DropDeep Cut85points
  • Drop AirchairDeep Cut85points
  • Drop overswayDeep Cut85points
  • DrumDeep Cut85points
  • Duck for the OysterDeep Cut85points
  • Duck turnDeep Cut85points
  • Dutty WineDeep Cut85points
  • DynoramaDeep Cut85points
  • Eagle RockDeep Cut85points
  • Eagle slideDeep Cut85points
  • Earthquake shimmyDeep Cut85points
  • ÉcartDeep Cut85points
  • EcheverriaDeep Cut85points
  • EggbeaterDeep Cut85points
  • Egyptian figure eightDeep Cut85points
  • Egyptian twistDeep Cut85points
  • Eight Chain ThruDeep Cut85points
  • Elbow AirchairDeep Cut85points
  • Elbow AirflareDeep Cut85points
  • Elbow ChairDeep Cut85points
  • Elbow freezeDeep Cut85points
  • Elbow NikeDeep Cut85points
  • Elbow pushDeep Cut85points
  • Elbow spinDeep Cut85points
  • Elbow StandDeep Cut85points
  • Elbow trackDeep Cut85points
  • ElbowslideDeep Cut85points
  • Electro ShuffleDeep Cut85points
  • EmboîtéDeep Cut85points
  • EmpeleDeep Cut85points
  • EnchuflaDeep Cut85points
  • Ends BendDeep Cut85points
  • Ends Turn InDeep Cut85points
  • EnlèvementDeep Cut85points
  • EnrosqueDeep Cut85points
  • EnveloppéDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

Reach of vocabulary, not familiarity, decided most of the scoring. The lone 100-point entry, Big Apple, was also the strangest name in the set, which matches a pattern where the first player to think of something genuinely unexpected takes the top band alone. The enormous 85-point tier, 2,033 recorded answers, absorbed everything from 1, 2 Step and Agadoo to Airwalk and Anchor Step: labels that mean a great deal inside one scene but seldom arrive first to a general audience. The 60-point shelf held only 243 answers, kept for the handful of moves nearly everyone reaches for, and that saturation is exactly what pushed them down. Specificity separated most of the neighbours: a figure with a fixed name, a documented origin and a place in a syllabus out-earned a loose label describing the same action. Rarity, not difficulty, set the price, so a forgotten formation call and the title of a viral clip could land in the same band.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 12 Nov, 05:00 UTC

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