冰舞是一种花样滑冰源于交谊舞。第一次世界花样滑冰比赛在1952年举行，但是直到1976年才成为冬季奥林匹克运动会的奖牌体育项目。 冰舞属于双人花样滑冰的一种，在比赛中选手搭档包括一男一女。 由于严格的托举限制，冰舞又和双人花样滑冰有所不同，冰舞要求参赛者在旋转时以一个舞蹈托举的表演形式体现，并且抛掷和跳跃之类的动作是不允许的。 一般来说，搭档们之间的距离不能超过两个手臂的长度；本来搭档应该在整个比赛中保持托举，但是这个规定在现代冰舞中没有那幺严格了。 冰舞和其他冰上竞技的另一个区别在于表演中音乐的选择。在冰舞表演中，参赛者必须踩到每个音乐的节拍或节奏。而不管是单人还是双人滑冰者经常会不自觉地随音乐的旋律和乐章舞动，却常常忘记踩到每个拍子，这样会在冰舞比赛中加重扣分。此外，冰舞是当前正式竞技中唯一允许有声乐出现的花样滑冰形式。 在一些非国际滑冰联盟的赛事中，单人舞者也可以参与冰舞比赛。

Ice dancing is a discipline of figure skating that draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976.

As in pair skating, dancers compete as a couple consisting of a man and a woman. Ice dance differs from pair skating by having different requirements for lifts. Couples must perform spins as a team in a dance hold, and throws and jumps are disallowed. Typically, partners are not supposed to separate by more than two arm lengths. Originally, partners were supposed to be in a dance hold the entire program, though modern ice dancing has lifted this restriction somewhat.