moonwalk

moonwalk

English

A graphic of a figure moonwalking (dance)

Etymology

Moon +‎ walk

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːnwɔːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmunwɔk/

Noun

moonwalk (plural moonwalks)

1. An exploration of the Moon's surface on foot (by an astronaut).
2. (dance) A dance move in which the dancer slides backwards though the feet move as if walking forwards; the backslide.
3. (dance) A dance style in which the dancer appears to be moving in a low gravity environment.

1. • 2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     Though the idea of placing wacky made-up characters in a real-life context was carried over from Da Ali G Show—wherein Buzz Aldrin was once asked if he was upset that Michael Jackson got all the credit for inventing the moonwalk—Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat felt like something new, an attempt to square an improvised, guerrilla style of underground comedy with reality-TV stunt shows like Jackass or Fear Factor.

Hypernyms

• (exploration of the Moon on foot): extravehicular activity
• (dance style): dance

Translations

exploration

Finnish: kuukävely

dance style

Arabic: مِشْيَة الْقَمَرِ‎ f (mišya(t) al-qamari) Armenian: լուսնային քայլվածք (lusnayin kʿaylvackʿ) Azerbaijani: ay gəzişi Bulgarian: лунна походка f (lunna pohodka) Chinese: Cantonese: 太空舞 (taai3 hung1 mou5) Mandarin: 月球漫步 (yuèqiú mànbù), 太空漫步 (zh) (tàikōng mànbù), 滑步 (huábù) Dutch: moonwalk m Esperanto: lunpaŝado Finnish: moonwalk French: moonwalk (fr) m German: Moonwalk m Greek: μούνγουοκ n (moúngouok), φεγγαροπερπάτημα f (fengaroperpátima)

Italian: moonwalk m Japanese: ムーンウォーク (mūnwōku), ムーンウオーク (mūn'uōku) Korean: 문워크 (munwokeu) Lithuanian: mėnulio eisena f Malayalam: മൂൺവാക്ക് (mūṇvākkŭ) Persian: مون‌واک‎ (munvâk) Russian: лу́нная похо́дка f (lúnnaja poxódka), скольже́ние наза́д n (skolʹžénije nazád), глайд (ru) m (glajd) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: месечев хо̑д m Roman: mesečev hȏd m Thai: มูนวอล์ก (muun-wɔ̂ɔk) Ukrainian: мі́сячна хода́ f (mísjačna xodá), ковза́ння наза́д f (kovzánnja nazád) Vietnamese: moonwalk, trượt về sau

Verb

moonwalk (third-person singular simple present moonwalks, present participle moonwalking, simple past and past participle moonwalked)

1. (intransitive) To walk on the surface of the Moon.
2. (intransitive) To walk in leaps, like on the Moon or on other low gravity surfaces.
3. (intransitive, dance) To perform the moonwalk.
4. (intransitive) 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.

Derived terms

• moonrun
• moonwalker

Translations

to moonwalk dance

Dutch: moonwalken

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English moonwalk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmun.ʋɔ(l)k/, /ˈmun.ʋɑ(l)k/

Noun

moonwalk m (plural moonwalken, diminutive moonwalkje n)

1. (dance) moonwalk

Derived terms

• moonwalken