Sweep

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Sweep may refer to:

Cleaning

Sweep (American football), a running play in American football
Sweep (martial arts), the name used for two categories of martial arts techniques
Sweep (rowing), also used historically
A Sweep in cricket, a shot played in cricket
A nickname for football player Shaun Wright-Phillips
Sweep, winning a series or contest without any losses, including
- Winning 3-0 in Major League Baseball Division Series
- Winning 4-0 in the Major League Baseball World Series
- Winning 4-0 in the basketball NBA Finals
- Winning 4-0 in the ice hockey Stanley Cup Finals

Sweep (horse) (1907–1936), 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 British children's television series The Sooty 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, ductwork
Sweep, an ability word in Magic: The Gathering
To win all or almost all awards possible at a ceremony, such as
- in the Oscars, to win the 'Big Five' film categories