Here's an answer that's short and sweet: Dance is an art form that uses movement to communicate our ideas, feelings, and experiences..
Jump, crawl, eat, drink, go, stop, run, walk, sleep, wash, open, close, push, pull, play, hug, tickle, dance, shake, sit, stand, toss, catch, and come etc.
The words given to the image are all called action words..
Explanation: Dance is common noun..
dance. noun. noun. /d\xe6ns/ 1[countable] a series of movements and steps that are usually performed to music; a particular example of these movements and steps a dance class/routine Find a partner and practice these new dance steps..
As detailed above, 'dancer' is a noun..
I am dancing is the present continuous tense of the verb to dance.
If you write “I like dancing” you have used it a gerund - which means a verb form with the -ing ending being used as a noun.
It would be an adjective only if it was describing a noun - the dancing boy, the dancing bear..
There are not many examples where dancing can work as a noun.
In general the word you need is dance.
A dance = a gathering of dancers such as:
The answer is that "dance" is a noun functioning as a modifier.
Nouns can be modified by a range of expressions which we call "modifiers".
Modifier is a function which in a noun phrase can be realised by an adjective ("a long letter"), a determinative ("another two candidates"), a noun (a brick wall) and even a verb ("a sleeping child").
Both "step dance" and "step dancing" are used as uncountable nouns, though "dancing" is probably more frequent.
Try googling; you'll find plenty of examples of both, meaning the same thing.
As a countable noun, it can only be "dance":
Noun that represents the agent of some action
