name
Meaning 1
A barangay of Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines.
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Standard Lemma guide
moonwalk
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈmuːnwɔːk/
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US: /ˈmunwɔk/
noun
Meaning 2
An exploration of the Moon's surface on foot by an astronaut.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: aerospace, astronautics, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Meaning 3
Activity on the Moon, outside any moonbase, exposed to space, by an astronaut
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: aerospace, astronautics, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
A dance move in which the dancer slides backwards though the feet move as if walking forwards; the backslide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: dance, dancing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 5
A dance style in which the dancer appears to be moving in a low gravity environment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: dance, dancing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
Meaning 6
To walk on the surface of the Moon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To walk in leaps, like on the Moon or on other low gravity surfaces.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 8
To perform the moonwalk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: dance, dancing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
Meaning 9
To walk in a manner that is similar to the moonwalk dance style; to move while sliding backwards as though the feet move as if one was walking forwards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
Meaning 10
an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: walk
noun
Meaning 11
a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding on the spot
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Michael Jackson perfected the moonwalk in the 1980s
Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: dance step, step
History
Etymology
From Moon + walk. * (backslide): Coined by Michael Jackson in 1983, when popularizing the backslide and renaming it.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: kuukävely — exploration
- Italian: passeggiata lunare — exploration
- Arabic: مِشْيَة الْقَمَرِ — dance style
- Armenian: լուսնային քայլվածք (lusnayin kʻaylvackʻ) — dance style
- Azerbaijani: ay gəzişi — dance style
- Bulgarian: лунна походка (lunna pohodka) — dance style
- Chinese Cantonese: 太空舞 (taai3 hung1 mou5) — dance style
- Chinese Mandarin: 月球漫步 (yuèqiú mànbù) — dance style
- Chinese Mandarin: 太空漫步 (tàikōng mànbù) — dance style
- Chinese Mandarin: 滑步 (huábù) — dance style
- Dutch: moonwalk — dance style
- Esperanto: lunpaŝado — dance style
- Finnish: moonwalk — dance style
- Finnish: kuukävely — dance style
- French: moonwalk — dance style
- German: Moonwalk — dance style
- Greek: μούνγουοκ (moúngouok) — dance style
- Greek: φεγγαροπερπάτημα (fengaroperpátima) — dance style
- Italian: moonwalk — dance style
- Japanese: ムーンウォーク (mūnwōku) — dance style
- Japanese: ムーンウオーク (mūn'uōku) — dance style
- Korean: 문워크 (munwokeu) — dance style
- Lithuanian: mėnulio eisena — dance style
- Malayalam: മൂൺവാക്ക് (mūṇvākkŭ) — dance style
- Persian: مونواک (mun-vâk) — dance style
- Portuguese: moonwalk — dance style
- Russian: лу́нная похо́дка (lúnnaja poxódka) — dance style
- Russian: скольже́ние наза́д (skolʹžénije nazád) — dance style
- Russian: глайд (glajd) — dance style
- Serbo-Croatian: месечев хо̑д — dance style
- Serbo-Croatian: mesečev hȏd — dance style
- Thai: มูนวอล์ก (muun-wɔ̂ɔk) — dance style
- Ukrainian: мі́сячна хода́ (mísjačna xodá) — dance style
- Ukrainian: ковза́ння наза́д (kovzánnja nazád) — dance style
- Vietnamese: moonwalk — dance style
- Dutch: moonwalken — to moonwalk dance
- Portuguese: fazer moonwalk — to moonwalk dance