foxtrot

See also: Foxtrot and fox-trot

Translingual

Noun

foxtrot

2. Alternative letter-case form of Foxtrot of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

English

Etymology

From fox +‎ trot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɒkstɹɒt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

foxtrot (plural foxtrots)

1. A ballroom dance with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm.
   • 1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 200:

     The tango, the Texas Tommy, Walking the Dog, the one step, the fox trot, the shimmy, and all their out-growths, had their origin in the palaces of lust on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco.

2. A pace with short steps, as in changing from trotting to walking.
3. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Foxtrot from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

Derived terms

• foxtrot oscar
• slowfox
• whiskey tango foxtrot
• whisky tango foxtrot

Translations

a ballroom dance

• Armenian: ֆոքստրոտ (hy) (fokʻstrot)
• Azerbaijani: fokstrot
• Catalan: foxtrot (ca) m
• Czech: foxtrot m
• Esperanto: fokstroto
• Finnish: fokstrotti (fi)
• French: fox-trot (fr) m
• German: Foxtrott (de) m
• Greek: είδος χορού (eídos choroú)
• Hebrew: פוקסטרוט (he)
• Hungarian: foxtrott (hu)
• Japanese: フォックストロット (fokkusutorotto)
• Polish: fokstrot (pl)
• Russian: фокстро́т (ru) m (fokstrót)
• Slovak: foxtrot m
• Swedish: foxtrot (sv)
• Turkish: fokstrot (tr)
• Welsh: llwynog (cy)

Verb

foxtrot (third-person singular simple present foxtrots, present participle foxtrotting, simple past and past participle foxtrotted)

1. To dance the foxtrot.

See also

• turkey trot

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfokstrot]
• Hyphenation: fox‧trot

Noun

foxtrot m inan

1. foxtrot (dance)

Declension

Declension of foxtrot (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	foxtrot	foxtroty
genitive	foxtrotu	foxtrotů
dative	foxtrotu	foxtrotům
accusative	foxtrot	foxtroty
vocative	foxtrote	foxtroty
locative	foxtrotu	foxtrotech
instrumental	foxtrotem	foxtroty

Further reading

• “foxtrot”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “foxtrot”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English foxtrot.

Noun

foxtrot n (plural foxtroturi)

1. foxtrot

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	foxtrot	foxtrotul	foxtroturi	foxtroturile
genitive-dative	foxtrot	foxtrotului	foxtroturi	foxtroturilor
vocative	foxtrotule		foxtroturilor

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from English foxtrot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔkstrɔt/

Noun

foxtrot m inan (genitive singular foxtrotu, nominative plural foxtroty, genitive plural foxtrotov, declension pattern of dub)

1. (dance) foxtrot

   Synonym: fox

Declension

Declension of foxtrot
(pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	foxtrot	foxtroty
genitive	foxtrotu	foxtrotov
dative	foxtrotu	foxtrotom
accusative	foxtrot	foxtroty
locative	foxtrote	foxtrotoch
instrumental	foxtrotom	foxtrotmi

Further reading

• “foxtrot”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English foxtrot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foɡsˈtɾot/ [foɣ̞sˈt̪ɾot̪]
• Rhymes: -ot
• Syllabification: fox‧trot

Noun

foxtrot m (plural foxtrots)

1. (dance) foxtrot

Further reading

• “foxtrot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Alternative forms

• foxtrott (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from English foxtrot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔkstrɔt/

Noun

foxtrot c

1. (dance) foxtrot

Declension

Declension of foxtrot

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	foxtrot	foxtrots
	definite	foxtroten	foxtrotens
plural	indefinite	foxtroter	foxtroters
	definite	foxtroterna	foxtroternas

References

• “foxtrot”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “foxtrott”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)