Swing

Swing

Swing may refer to:

ports

* Swing bowling, a subtype of fast bowling in cricket
* Golf swing
* Baseball swing
* Swing (boxing)

Dance

* Swing (dance)
** West Coast Swing
** East Coast Swing
** Lindy Hop
** Jive (dance)

Music

Key concepts

* Swung note, changes in the durations of pairs of notes
*Swing (jazz performance style), term used to describe the sense of propulsive rhythmic "feel" or "groove" in jazz
* Swing music, a style of jazz from the 1930s-1940s, also called "swing jazz"

Other applications

* An understudy in musical theatre who prepares several roles
* "Swing!", a Broadway musical
* Swing Out Sister, a rock-jazz-pop musical group
* Swing Kids, a group of jazz and Swing lovers in 1930s Germany
* Swing Kids (band), a hardcore punk band from San Diego, California in the mid 1990s
* Swing (song), a song by New Zealand performer Savage
* Swing Time Records, a record label
* "Swing" (Manhattan Transfer album), 1997 album by The Manhattan Transfer
* New jack swing, a hybrid of hip hop and R&B that first emerged in 1987
* Fender Swinger, a rare vintage Fender guitar

Films and television

* Swing Kids (film), a 1993 Thomas Carter film
* Swingers (1996 film), a 1996 American film directed by Doug Liman
* Swingers (2002 film), a 2002 Dutch film directed by Stephan Brenninkmeijer
* Swing Time, a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film
* Swing Out, Sister, a 1945 film
* "Swingers" (Wonder Years episode), the second episode of "The Wonder Years"

Politics

* Swing (politics), in a British political context, an indication of the scale of voter change
* Swing (Australian politics), a different sense from that employed in Britain
* Marginal seat or swing seat, a district or constituency held with a particularly small majority
** Swing state, in the US
* Captain Swing, an imaginary leader of the English rural uprising of 1830
** Swing Riots, an English rural uprising of 1830

Computing

* Swing (Java), Sun's lightweight GUI library for the Java language
* Swing (video game), a video game for the Playstation
* Polaroid Swinger, a Polaroid camera model

Other uses

*Swing (seat), a suspended seat often found in backyards
* Captain Swing (play), a play by Peter Whelan
* Swinger, a submodel of the Dodge Dart
* Sex swing, a type of harness specifically for the purpose of sexual intercourse
* Swingette, a term used to describe the feminine gender engaging in swinging activities


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  • swing — swing …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • swing — [ swiŋ ] n. m. • 1895; mot angl., de to swing « balancer » ♦ Anglic. I ♦ 1 ♦ Boxe Coup de poing donné en ramenant le bras de l extérieur à l intérieur. « Joe Mitchell, d un furieux swing du droit, fendit l arcade sourcilière de son adversaire »… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • swing — [swiŋ] vi. swung, swinging [ME swingen < OE swingan, akin to Ger schwingen, to brandish < IE base * sweng , to curve, swing] 1. to sway or move backward and forward with regular movement, as a freely hanging object or a ship at anchor;… …   English World dictionary

  • Swing — Swing, n. 1. The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum. [1913 Webster] 2. Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Swing — bezeichnet Swing (Musikrichtung), Musikrichtung, die in den 1930ern aus der Jazz Tanzmusik entstand Swing (Rhythmus), fließende Rhythmik, die eines der wesentlichsten Elemente des Jazz darstellt Swing (Tanz), Tanzstil, der in den 1930ern in den… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • swing — ► VERB (past and past part. swung) 1) move back and forth or from side to side while or as if suspended. 2) move by grasping a support and leaping. 3) move in a smooth, curving line. 4) (swing at) attempt to hit or punch. 5) shift from one… …   English terms dictionary

  • Swing — Swing, v. t. 1. To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other. [1913 Webster] He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round. Dryden. [1913 Webster] They get on ropes, as you must have seen… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Swing — Swing, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swung}; Archaic imp. {Swang}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swinging}.] [OE. swingen, AS. swingan to scourge, to fly, to flutter; akin to G. schwingen to winnow, to swingle, oscillate, sich schwingen to leap, to soar, OHG. swingan… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • swing — vb 1 Swing, wave, flourish, brandish, shake, thrash are comparable when they mean to wield or to handle something so that it moves alternately backward and forward or upward and downward or around and around. Swing often implies regular… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Swing-by — auch: Swing|by 〈[ baı] n. 15; Raumf.〉 = Fly by [<engl. swing by „kurz vorbeischauen“] * * * Swing by   [ baɪ, englisch], Raumfahrt: das Fly by. * * * Swịng by [... baɪ], das; s, s [engl. swing by, eigtl. = das Vorüberschwingen] (Raumf.): ↑ …   Universal-Lexikon

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