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UK
/ɹˈʌmbɐ/
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NOUN
- a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement
- syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba
- a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance
VERB
- dance the rhumba
How To Use rumba In A Sentence
- Each school can provide five pairs (plus one alternate) to dance in five different styles: swing, the tango, the rumba, the merengue, and the foxtrot.
- Dances like the rumba and cha-cha are very sexy, and offer a great opportunity for a couple to learn to move together well.
- We follow each class through ten weeks of practice, with 10- and 11-year-olds learning to dance in styles such as swing, rumba, meringue and tango.
- Latin dance - mambo, cha-cha, rumba, samba, tango, and so on - are Afro-Euro forms defined by the coming together of black, brown, and white peoples in the Americas.
- She made it to the show's semi-finals with her professional dance partner, having learnt to dance the waltz, foxtrot, samba, rumba, jive and quickstep among others.
- Overweight barmen slosh mojitos on the counter at great haste and orders are shouted against a backdrop of salsa and rumba.
- He described the Portuguese lament as a rumba with a tango bridge.
- And it's not just the waltz I have been forced into learning, I have to tango, and rumba and do all this other stuff too.
- CONTRERAS: The dresses on display are all variations on a traditional style worn by rumba dancers called bata Cubana. Celia Cruz: Her Life and Music
- Thanks to Isla's rapid success, the narrow, 55-seat L-shaped room already feels cramped, and the music is so loud and infectious that you resent the lack of enough room to rumba.
