spring dance

plural spring dances

1. A folk dance traditionally held to celebrate the season of spring.
2. A dance held in the spring.
3. A vigorous dance with jumping or leaping moves.

   "There lies the parson, and here am I," he said, with one of his well known airs, "and now let us have a spring-dance!" In an instant the whole congregation was in the midst of a wild dance; a big tall peasant came towards me and took me by the shoulder and said: "You'll have to join us, my lad!"

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 14