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Tango (Argentine tango) is applied clinically for therapeutic purposes. Not only does tango, as a kind of dance, involve complex whole body movements synchronized to music but tango movements seem to be complicated and have many unique postures. For the systemic application of tango therapy, the systemic analysis of tango movements and figures are absolutely necessary. For therapeutic purposes, tango therapy should be prescribed based on a common scientific description. To describe tango movements more scientifically and systemically, a uniform systematic standard terminology should be determined and defined. However, the determination and definition of the terminology for tango should be performed for the research of tango movements. In this article, the unique terminology of Argentine tango is listed and defined according to the original meaning in Spanish as the first step toward for the systemic standardization of tango