0 an informal dance in which people do traditional dancing in rows and circles, changing partners regularly
Often I have heard it sung in shrill, piping voice at harvest supper or barn dance.
That barn dance will be fun, said Alice to Ruth, the evening on which it was to take place.
The place had been closed since summer, and it seemed colder than outside, but those two did the barn dance then and there.
We even had picnics and barn dances every three or four weeks.
Barn dances and opries were regular staples of early television, as were the first variety shows.
There could have been a grotesque barn dance.
It is like a progressive barn dance, with pupils meeting from time to time as they move from class to class.