Swing
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Swing may refer to:
Sports
- Swing bowling, a subtype of fast bowling in cricket
- Golf swing
- Baseball swing
- Swing (boxing)
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", 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
- 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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