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Is there a word or phrase for the absurd dance two pedestrians do when they bump into each other and then step left and right, moving side to side, but unable to get past one another?
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I've always called it the sidewalk shuffle. Others may have other terms for it.
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Someone agrees with you: Quote:
Sidewalk shuffle
Well known dance routine, performed usually on the street. It happens when two people coming in from opposite directions realize that they are trying to walk through the same place. Then they both step to a side, while keeping their relative position. Afterwards, they repeat the same maneuver, alternating sides.
—everything.com
But how about "pavement shuffle"? (We don't say "sidewalk" in my neck of the woods.)
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Quote:
But how about "pavement shuffle"? (We don't say "sidewalk" in my neck of the woods.)
You might want something a little more alliterative, say, "pavement pas-de-deux"? 
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