Wort des Tages
30 May 2026
round dance
nounLandtechnik
A repetitive, circular movement made by a foraging honey bee in process of communicating to other workers that it has located a significant and nearby food source.
Warum dieses Wort
The round dance is the short range half of a pair: it says close by, go look, without the direction and distance information the waggle dance carries. Beekeepers reading it as a compass bearing are reading too much into it.
In use
Plenty of round dance on the comb this morning, so whatever they're on is right here, not out in the far field.
Written by our editors to show how the term is used, not a recorded quotation.