What's the difference between dancing and running?

Dancing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dance
  • (p. a. & vb. n.) from Dance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His verdict of her that "she danced on the graves of her husband's victims.
  • (2) In the dance off tomorrow should be Dave and Karen and Mark and Iveta, but it wouldn't surprise me if Fiona and Anton were in the bottom two instead.
  • (3) The Taliban banned television, music, dancing, and almost every other pastime, from kite-flying to cinema-going.
  • (4) I encourage you to visit your local care home on Friday to take part in the activities, from dance classes to tours of care homes.
  • (5) The station programmer of the year went to Andy Roberts of dance station Kiss.
  • (6) Oh, and let’s not forget about him doing bad dance moves in a video making fun of Drake’s choreography in the Hotline Bling video.
  • (7) Should it all go wrong, I can't see further than Dance of the Cuckoos , personally.
  • (8) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
  • (9) Dell'Utri managed the 1994 campaign – a dazzling phantasmagoria of dancing girls under the lights, while he saw to the shadows.
  • (10) It's the slogan of an old electronica & dance music festival in Berlin known as The Love Parade.
  • (11) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
  • (12) Saturday's programme was beaten in the ratings – at least while the two were head-to-head – by BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing.
  • (13) Not so in 2012, with the shortlist for outstanding achievement in dance revealed as Edward Watson for The Metamorphosis at Covent Garden; Sylvie Guillem for 6,000 Miles Away at Sadler's Wells and Tommy Franzen for Some Like it Hip Hop at the Peacock.
  • (14) A significant increase in the percentage of zymosan-complement rosette forming cells was seen during dancing.
  • (15) The purpose of this study was to determine the changes in maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max) and body composition following 8 weeks of aerobic dance using hand-held weights (Heavyhands, AMF, Jefferson, IA).
  • (16) She mentions the show at the Baltic in Gateshead in 2007, when one of her photographs, Klara and Edda Belly-dancing , owned by Elton John, was removed from the exhibition on the grounds that it was pornographic .
  • (17) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
  • (18) This season’s other much awaited debut will be Natalia Osipova , dancing her first Kitri with the Royal later this month.
  • (19) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
  • (20) The 30-year-old, whose airway had been so damaged by TB she was gasping for breath on the stairs, told Professor Paolo Macchiarini she had been dancing all night in a club in Ibiza.

Running


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Run
  • (a.) Moving or advancing by running.
  • (a.) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
  • (a.) trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.
  • (a.) Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.
  • (a.) Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.
  • (a.) Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation.
  • (a.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine.
  • (a.) Discharging pus; as, a running sore.
  • (n.) The act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running was slow.
  • (n.) That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as, the first running of a still.
  • (n.) The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
  • (2) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
  • (3) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (4) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
  • (5) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
  • (6) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
  • (7) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
  • (8) These major departmental transformations are being run in isolation from each other.
  • (9) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
  • (10) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (11) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
  • (12) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
  • (13) This implementation reduced a formidable task to a relatively routine run.
  • (14) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
  • (15) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
  • (16) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
  • (17) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
  • (18) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
  • (19) The American Red Cross said the aid organisation had already run out of medical supplies, with spokesman Eric Porterfield explaining that the small amount of medical equipment and medical supplies available in Haiti had been distributed.
  • (20) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.