hoop dance

hoop dance
noun
: a male exhibition dance with hoops performed among Indian peoples and imitators from New Mexico to the Great Lakes

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hoop dance,
a dance performed as a religious ceremony with a hoop by North American Indians living west of the Mississippi.

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