Definitions
a lively ballroom dance that resembles the samba
Word origin
Borrowed from Portuguese carioca.
Used in a sentence
“These included the cocontraction maneuver (a shuffling maneuver around a semicircle while tethered to surgical tubing), a carioca (crossover stepping), and a shuttle run (an acceleration and deceleration test).”
“Leg press, squat, circle running, figure eights, single-leg hops, vertical jumps, lateral bounds, one-legged long jumps, and carioca (crossover walking) are some examples.”
“Or he might go to Rio. Rio with its white sand. He knew a rhyme about Rio, its thieving cariocas who wore sparkling wedding dresses.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Samba-like dance”7 letters
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