Meanings
plural foxtrots
- A ballroom dance with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm.
The tango, the Texas Tommy, Walking the Dog, the one step, the fox trot, the shimmy, and all their out-growths, had their origin in the palaces of lust on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco.
1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 200 - international standardsAlternative letter-case form of Foxtrot from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
present singular third person foxtrots · participle present foxtrotting · participle past foxtrotted · past foxtrotted
- To dance the foxtrot.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan foxtrot
- foxtrota ballroom dance
Czech foxtrot
- foxtrota ballroom dance
Esperanto fokstroto
- fokstrotoa ballroom dance
Finnish fokstrotti
- fokstrottia ballroom dance
French fox-trot
- fox-trota ballroom dance
German Foxtrott
- Foxtrotta ballroom dance
Greek είδος χορού
- είδος χορού (eídos choroú)a ballroom dance
Hebrew פוקסטרוט
- פוקסטרוטa ballroom dance
Hungarian foxtrott
- foxtrotta ballroom dance
Japanese フォックストロット
- フォックストロット (fokkusutorotto)a ballroom dance
Polish fokstrot
- fokstrota ballroom dance
Russian фокстро́т
- фокстро́т (fokstrót)a ballroom dance
Slovak foxtrot
- foxtrota ballroom dance
Swedish foxtrot
- foxtrota ballroom dance
Turkish fokstrot
- fokstrota ballroom dance
Welsh llwynog
- llwynoga ballroom dance
Cite this entry
foxtrot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foxtrot
“foxtrot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foxtrot. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foxtrot,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foxtrot.
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