| The halling is one of a number of European folk dances among them the Ukrainian hopak and the Alpine Schuhplattler in which the male dancer shows off for his partner. |
| Hopak, Russian gopak, Ukrainian folk dance originating as a male dance among the Zaporozhian Cossacks but later danced by couples, male soloists, and mixed groups of dancers. |
| The hopak was first danced by the Cossack of the Zaporhizian Sich in the sixteenth century and spread to the rest of Ukraine. |
| The Schuhplattler is one of several European courtship dances, such as the Basque aurresku, the Norwegian halling, and the Ukrainian hopak, in which the men show off for their partners. |
| In a popular folk dance called the hopak, male dancers compete against each other, performing acrobatic leaps. |
