What is the tense for the word dancing?

Answer 1

The word "dancing" is a gerund form, used as a noun (e.g. Dancing is hard work.)

But the -ing form is also used in the "continuous" or progressive tenses.

Present continuous: I am dancing.

Past continuous: I was dancing.

Future continuous: I will be dancing.

Present perfect continuous: I have been dancing.

Past perfect continuous: I had been dancing.

Future perfect continuous: I will have been dancing.