Swing

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Swing or swinging may refer to:

Activity

• Swing (seat), a (usually outdoors located) hanging seat suspended from a bar that swings back and forth
  • a Russian swing, a swing-like circus apparatus
• Baseball swing, a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each
• Golf swing, the means by which golfers make decisions (selecting clubs, selecting shots) and execute them (making shots) in the sport of golf
• Swing bowling, a subtype of fast bowling in cricket
• Swing (boxing)
• Swing ride an amusement park ride consisting of suspended seats that rotate like a merry-go-round

Computing

• Swing (Java), Sun's lightweight GUI library for the Java programming language
• Swing (video game), a 1997 video game for the PC and PlayStation

Entertainment

Music

• New jack swing, a hybrid of hip hop and R&B that first emerged in 1987
• Swing (dance), a group of dances that correspond to swing style of jazz music
• Swing (jazz performance style), the sense of propulsive rhythmic "feel" or "groove" in jazz
• Swing music, a style of jazz from the 1930s-1940s, also called "swing jazz"
• Swing Time Records, a record label

Artists

• Swing (music group), a Hong Kong pop music group
• Swing (band), a Canadian néo-trad band

Songs and albums

• Swing!, a 1999 Broadway musical
• Swing (album), 1997 album by The Manhattan Transfer
• Swing (song), a 2005 song by New Zealand performer Savage, released again in 2008 featuring Soulja Boy
• Swing (Trace Adkins song), a song by Trace Adkins
• Swing, a song by Yello
• Swing, a song by Taking Back Sunday
• The Swing, a 1984 album by Australian rock band INXS
• Swing, Swing, a 2003 song by the All-American Rejects

See also

• Swingin' (disambiguation)
  • Swingin' (John Anderson song), 1983 single by John Anderson

Theatre

• Swing, a term in musical theatre for an understudy who prepares several roles

Television and films

• Swing! (film), a 1938 American film directed by Oscar Micheaux
• Swing (2002 film), a French film by Tony Gatlif
• Swing (2003 film), an American film by Martin Guigui
• Swing (2010 film), a Hindi short film
• Swing (2011 film), a Kuwaiti short film

Politics

• Swing (politics), an indication of the scale of voter change
• Swing (Australian politics), the swing between the last two remaining parties in a preferential voting election
• Swing (United Kingdom), in a British political context is a single figure used as an indication of the scale of voter change between two political parties
• Captain Swing, an imaginary leader of the Swing Riots

Other uses

• Aquilair Swing, a French ultralight trike aircraft design
• Swing trading is a speculative activity in financial markets where a tradable asset is held for between one to several days in an effort to profit from price changes or 'swings'
• Swing rifle, type of firearm
• Swinging, a type of manipulation of poï in juggling
• Sex swing, a type of harness specifically for the purpose of sexual intercourse
• The Swing (painting), a 1767 rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
• Swing Bike, a bicycle where both front and rear wheels are steerable

See also

• Swinger (disambiguation)
• Swingin' (disambiguation)

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