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means A family of partnered dance styles (Lindy Hop, Charleston, East Coast Swing, and kin) built to ride the rhythm of swing-era jazz, full of kicks, flicks, and improvised give-and-take between partners.

from The dance took its name straight from the music: in the 1930s and '40s, big bands played a rhythmically loose, syncopated style of jazz called 'swing' — the term itself borrowed from the musicians' slang for that elastic, forward-leaning groove, a feel players chased more than a rule they followed. Dancers in Harlem ballrooms, especially the Savoy, built increasingly athletic moves to match that groove, and Lindy Hop emerged as the style's flagship. 'Swing dance' simply inherited the music's name, carrying the word's core sense — a rhythmic push and pull, a controlled sway — right down into the footwork.