Swing

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Swing may refer to:

Sports

• Baseball swing
• Golf swing
• Swing bowling, a subtype of fast bowling in cricket
• Swing (boxing)

Dance

• Swing (dance)
  • East Coast Swing
  • West Coast Swing
  • Jive (dance)
  • Lindy Hop

Music

Key concepts

• Swing (jazz performance style), term used to describe the sense of propulsive rhythmic "feel" or "groove" in jazz
• Swing music, a style of jazz from the 1930s-1940s, also called "swing jazz"
• Swung note, changes in the durations of pairs of notes

Other applications

• Fender Swinger, a rare vintage Fender guitar
• New jack swing, a hybrid of hip hop and R&B that first emerged in 1987
• Swing is a term in musical theatre for an understudy who prepares several roles
• Swing!, a Broadway musical
• Swing Kids, a group of jazz and Swing lovers in 1930s Germany
• Swing (band), a Canadian néo-trad band
• Swing Kids (band), a hardcore punk band from San Diego, California in the mid 1990s
• Swing (Manhattan Transfer album), 1997 album by The Manhattan Transfer
• Swing (music group), a Hong Kong pop music group
• Swing Out Sister, a rock-jazz-pop musical group
• Swing (song), a song by New Zealand performer Savage
• "Swing," a song by Trace Adkins
• "Swing", a song by Yello
• Swing Time Records, a record label
• The Swing, a 1984 album by Australian rock band INXS
• Swingin', 1983 single

Films and television

• Swing Kids (film), a 1993 Thomas Carter film
• Swingers (1996 film), a 1996 American film directed by Doug Liman
• Swingers (2002 film), a 2002 Dutch film directed by Stephan Brenninkmeijer
• Swing Time (1936 film), a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film
• Swing Out, Sister, a 1945 film
• "Swingers" (Wonder Years episode), the second episode of The Wonder Years

Politics

• Swing (politics), in a British political context, an indication of the scale of voter change
• Swing (Australian politics), a different sense from that employed in Britain
• Swing (United Kingdom)
• Marginal seat or swing seat, a district or constituency held with a particularly small majority
• Swing state, in the United States
• Captain Swing, an imaginary leader of the English rural uprising of 1830
  • Swing Riots, an English rural uprising of 1830

Computing

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

Other uses

• Captain Swing (play), a play by Peter Whelan
• Polaroid Swinger, a Polaroid camera model
• Sex swing, a type of harness specifically for the purpose of sexual intercourse
• Swing (seat), a suspended seat often found in backyards
• Swinger, a submodel of the Dodge Dart
• Swingette, a term used to describe the feminine gender engaging in sexual swinging activities
• The Swing (painting), a 1767 rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
• "Swinging", a song by Tom Molloy

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