1. A type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
   "The community centre hosted weekly contra danse sessions for all ages";
   - country dance, country dancing, contredanse, contradance

1. Perform a contradance
   "We can contra danse at the harvest festival";
   - contradance, country-dance, contredanse

Type of: dance, folk dance, folk dancing, trip the light fantastic [archaic], trip the light fantastic toe [archaic]