Swing
Appearance
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
- Swingin', 1983 single by John Anderson
- Swinging, a song by Tom Molloy
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
- 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 rifles, type of firearm
- Swinging, 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