Sweep

Sweep may refer to:

Cleaning

• Chimney sweep
• Street sweeper
• Swept quartz, a cleaning of quartz crystal from alkali metal ions

Sports

• Sweep (football play)
• Sweep (baseball/basketball/hockey), winning a five game series 3 games to none, or winning a seven game series 4 games to none; typically fans bring brooms to ballparks or ball courts in the final game of a impending series "sweep" as a way to brandish and taunt the team that is down in the series.
• Sweep (martial arts)
• Sweep (rowing)
• Batting (cricket)#Sweep, a shot played in cricket
• A nickname for football player Shaun Wright-Phillips

Farming

• Sweep (agricultural)

Detection

• Bug sweeping
• Minesweeping

Other meanings

• Clean sweep (naval), referring to a completely successful mission carried out by a warship.
• Sweep (horse), a champion thoroughbred race horse
• Sweep (book series), a fictional series by Cate Tiernan
• Sweep (software), a digital audio editor
• Sweep (fish) a number of fish in the suborder Scorpidinae
• Sweep account, a kind of bank account
• Sweep line algorithm, a concept in computational geometry
• Sweep-picking, a guitar technique
• Swept wing, a layout of the wings on an airplane
• Sweeps period, a system of calculating viewership for television programming
• Sweep (puppet), a character on the Sooty television show
• SWEEPS, the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search
• Sweepstakes, a sales promotion or lottery
• Sweeps - a term for the sails of a windmill. Usage confined to Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
• Sweep (Transformers), a character from Transformers franchise
• Sweep - a gradual bend or elbow in conduit, piping, or ductwork