The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word JIG , but the solution may also be REEL which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in Wall Street Journal).
Lively folk dance crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| JIG | 20 % | 3 |
| POLKA | 20 % | 5 |
| TARANTELLA | 20 % | 10 |
| HORA | 20 % | 4 |
| REEL | 20 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Lively folk dance
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- line dance
- charleston
- excuse me
- waltz
- mixer
- reel
- contra
- grizzly bear
- lancers
- ticking
Crossword Answer definitions
JIG noun- A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dancing) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
- A trick; a prank.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- To fish with a jig.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- A black person.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result JIG
- Lively dance in triple time
- Dance
- Lively dance
- Cork dance
- Dance in 12/8 time
- Dance performed in ghillies
- Irish dance
- Irishman's dance
- Leprechauns' steps
- Irish stepdance music
More clues leading to the result POLKA
- Bohemian round dance
- Gdansk dance
- Welk offering
- Oompah-band tune
- Piece for squeezeboxes
- Yankovic genre
- Beer Barrel dance
- Kind of dot
- Popular song genre on "The Lawrence Welk Show"
- Oktoberfest tune
More clues leading to the result TARANTELLA
- Folk dance of southern Italy
- Lively Italian folk dance
- Lively Italian dance
- Lively Neapolitan dance.
- Neapolitan folk dance.
- Whirling dance.
- Dance
- Italian dance
- Southern Italian folk dance
- Vivacious Italian folk dance
More clues leading to the result HORA
- Round dance
- Circle dance
- Israeli dance
- Dance at a Jewish wedding
- Traditional circle dance
- Caterpillar creation
- Bar mitzvah dance
- Dance with a chair
- Dance after breaking the glass, say
- Dance with high chairs