moonwalk

Everyday

1. A walk on the surface of the Moon by an astronaut. tree →
2. A dance move where you seem to walk forwards but actually slide backwards, made famous by the singer Michael Jackson. tree →
3. To do this dance move, or to walk on the Moon. tree →

In the lessons

In science and history lessons, moonwalks are the trips astronauts made outside their spacecraft on the Moon, starting with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969 (Apollo 11). In everyday life and at school discos, it is the famous backwards-sliding dance step.

Examples

• Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was watched by millions of people on television. tree →
• The astronauts collected rocks during their moonwalk. tree →
• Leo can moonwalk across the kitchen floor in his socks. tree →
• At the school disco everyone tried to moonwalk. tree →
• On a moonwalk, astronauts bounce because the Moon's gravity is weak. tree →
• Michael Jackson made the moonwalk famous in 1983. tree →
• We read a book about the first moonwalk. tree →

Note

Countable noun: one moonwalk, two moonwalks. Usually written as one word. Twelve people walked on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. The dance move does not involve the Moon at all; it is named that because it looks floaty, like walking with low gravity.