1. ballroom ballroom dance: a ballroom dance alternating longer slower walking steps and shorter quicker running steps, usually with four beats to the bar
2. music music: the music for a foxtrot
3. riding horse's slow trotting pace: a slow pace for a horse, between a trot and a walk, in which it takes short steps in a broken rhythm
[Early 20th century. < the short steps of the fox]
