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a Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen
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perform a belly dance
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a solo dance because in the culture where it originated a man can dance or a woman can dance, but they cannot both dance at the same time at opposite ends of the same room
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Group of traditional dances practiced in the greater Middle East (Turkey, Persia, Egypt, Marocco...). Middle Eastern dance is probably a better term.
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Belly dance is a Western name for an Arabic style of dance developed in the Middle East. In Europe, it is sometimes called oriental dance. Similarly, In Turkish it is referred to as oryantal dansı ("Dance of the East").
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