contra danse vs country dancing

contra danse and country dancing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
contra danse	Yes	No	Yes	No
country dancing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, contra danse and country dancing are synonyms defined as:

contra danse and country dancing: a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line

Other synonyms of contra danse include contradance, contredanse, country-dance.

contra danse (noun)	country dancing (noun)
a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line	a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line

contra danse (verb)	country dancing (verb)
perform a contradance