footwork

plural footworks

1. uncountableusuallyAny movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing.

   The dancer impressed the crowd with his fancy footwork.

   2 more examples

   The horses impressed the riders with their unerring footwork, and the mountain goats simply astounded everyone with their surefootedness.

   Everton defender Distin then demonstrated neat footwork to evade a succession of challenges inside the area before sending a rising, angled effort narrowly off target.

   2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2012

2. uncountableusuallyentertainmentA subgenre of juke/ghetto house and style of street dance that originated in Chicago in the early 1990s.

   In April, DJ Rashad, a Chicago-based producer and pioneer of the increasingly popular footwork genre, died in a drug-related accident.

   2015 November 16, Sukhdev Sandhu, “How dub master Kode9 became the hero of zero”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2021

3. informaluncountableusuallyFinesse.

   It took some fancy footwork to make it all happen.