Swing

Swing or swinging may refer to:

Apparatus

• Swing (seat), a hanging seat that swings back and forth
• Swing ride, an amusement park ride consisting of suspended seats that rotate like a merry-go-round
• Russian swing, a swing-like circus apparatus

Entertainment

Albums

• The Swing (INXS album), a 1984 album by Australian rock band INXS
• Swing (The Manhattan Transfer album), 1997 album by The Manhattan Transfer
• Swing (Renée Geyer album), 2013 album by Renée Geyer
• Swing (EP), a 2014 album by South Korean-Chinese group, Super Junior-M

Songs

• "Swing" (Trace Adkins song), 2006, by Trace Adkins
• "Swing" (AMO song), a 2012 song by Slovak hip hop band AMO
• "Swing" (Savage song), 2005, by New Zealand performer Savage, released again in 2008 featuring Soulja Boy
• "The Swing" (song), 1997, by American country music artist James Bonamy
• "Swing, Swing", 2003, by the All-American Rejects
• "Swing", 1980, by Japan from the album Gentlemen Take Polaroids
• "Swing", 2015, by Knuckle Puck from the album Copacetic
• "Swing", 2012, by Parkway Drive from the album Atlas
• "Swing", 2014, by Super Junior-M from the album Swing
• "Swing", 1983, by Yello

Film

• Swing (1938 film), an American film directed by Oscar Micheaux
• Swing (1999 film), an American film by Nick Mead
• 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

Other entertainment

• Swing music, a style of jazz popular during the 1930s–1950s
• Swing (jazz performance style), the sense of propulsive rhythmic "feel" or "groove" in jazz
• Swing (dance), a group of dances that correspond to swing style of jazz music
• Swing (Canadian band), a Canadian néo-trad band
• Swing (Hong Kong band), a Hong Kong pop music group
• Swing (musical), a 1999 Broadway musical
• Swing (video game), a 1997 video game for the PC and PlayStation
• The Swing (painting), a 1767 rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
• Swing Time Records, a record label
• Swing, an understudy in the musical theatre who prepares several roles

Politics

• Swing (politics), the extent of change in voter support
  • Swing (Australian politics), refers to the extent of change in voter support, typically from one election or opinion poll to another
  • Swing (United Kingdom), an indication of the scale of voter change between two political parties
• Captain Swing, a name appended to several threatening letters during the rural English Swing Riots of 1830

Sports

• Swing (boxing), a type of punch
• Baseball swing, the process of hitting a ball with a bat in the game of baseball
• Golf swing or Golf stroke mechanics, the means by which golfers analyze the execute their shots in the sport of golf
• Swing bowling, a subtype of fast bowling in cricket

Transportation

• Aquilair Swing, a French ultralight trike aircraft design
• S-Wing Swing, light sport aircraft designed and built in the Czech Republic
• Swing Bike, a bicycle where both front and rear wheels are steerable
• Swing Flugsportgeräte, German aircraft manufacturer

Other uses

• Swing (Java), a GUI widget toolkit for the Java programming language
• Sex swing, a type of harness for sexual intercourse
• Swing rifle, type of firearm
• Swing trading, when a tradable asset is held for one or more days to profit from price changes
• Swinging (sexual practice), when partners in a committed relationship engage in sexual activities with others

See also

• Swinger (disambiguation)
• Swingin' (disambiguation)
• Swings (disambiguation)
• The Swing (disambiguation)