Rhythm Music I Steady ˈrɪðəm Sense Regular Natural

• to dance to the rhythm of the music
• i listened to the steady rhythm of her breathing.
• music with a fast/slow/steady rhythm
• i love these jazz rhythms.

rhythm

1. a strong regular repeated pattern of sounds or movements
• SEE ALSO delta rhythm
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/delta-rhythm
• to dance to the rhythm of the music
• I listened to the steady rhythm of her breathing.
• music with a fast/slow/steady rhythm
• I love these jazz rhythms.
• abnormal heart rhythms
• He can't seem to play in rhythm.
• The boat rocked up and down in rhythm with the sea.
• a dancer with a natural sense of rhythm (= the ability to move in time to a fixed beat)

Extra Examples

• He was snapping his fingers in rhythm.
• Her feet made a steady rhythm as she walked.
• Her feet made a steady rhythm on the pavement.
• Her pencil tapped out a staccato rhythm on the desk top.
• I found myself swaying to the rhythm of the music.
• I like music with a good rhythm.
• There's rhythm in her movements.
• Try to disrupt your opponent's rhythm.
• Williams is having trouble finding her rhythm on the serve.
• the steady rhythm of his heartbeat
• Doctors discovered that he had an abnormal heart rhythm.
• She has a natural sense of rhythm.
• This piece of music has a very fast rhythm.
• You can't play drums because you have no sense of rhythm.
2. a regular pattern of changes or events
• SEE ALSO biorhythm
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/biorhythm
• the rhythm of the seasons
• biological/body rhythms
• Lack of sleep can upset your daily rhythm.
• You'll soon get into a rhythm.

Extra Examples

• part of the natural rhythm of life
• My body rhythms had not yet adapted to the ten-hour time difference.
• changes to our daily rhythms
• She soon settled into a regular rhythm.
• The movie follows the rhythms of a year on the farm.
• Cleaning up the house in the morning fell into an easy rhythm.

Word Origin

• mid 16th cent. (also originally in the sense ‘rhyme’): from French rhythme, or via Latin from Greek rhuthmos (related to rhein ‘to flow’).