Sweep or swept may refer to:

Cleaning

* Sweep, the action of using a

brush A brush is a common tool with bristles, wire or other filaments. It generally consists of a handle or block to which filaments are affixed in either a parallel or perpendicular orientation, depending on the way the brush is to be gripped durin ...

to clean * Chimney sweep, a worker who clears ash and soot from chimneys * Street sweeper, a person's occupation, or a machine that cleans streets * Swept quartz, a cleaning of quartz crystal from alkali metal ions

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Sweep'' (book series), a fictional series by Cate Tiernan *

Sweep (puppet) Sweep is a British puppet and television character popular in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and other countries. Sweep is a grey glove puppet dog with long black ears who joined ''The Sooty Show'' in 1 ...

, a character on the British children's television series ''The Sooty Show'' * Sweep, an ability keyword in '' Magic: The Gathering'' * Sweep-picking, a guitar technique *

Sweeps period Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers. Headquartered in New York City, it is best known for the Nielsen rat ...

, a system of calculating viewership for television programming * ''Swept'' (album), a 1991 album by the English singer Julia Fordham

Detection

Bug sweeping Countersurveillance refers to measures that are usually undertaken by the public to prevent surveillance, including covert surveillance. Countersurveillance may include electronic methods such as technical surveillance counter-measures, which is ...

, the common name for electronic counter surveillance * Minesweeper (ship), a small naval ship designed to engage in minesweeping * Minesweeping, the practice of removing explosive mines * Radio-frequency sweep, the action of scanning a radio frequency band for detecting signals transmitted there *

SWEEPS Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers. Headquartered in New York City, it is best known for the Nielsen rat ...

, a 2006 astronomical survey project using the

Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most versa ...

Farming

* Sweep (agricultural), a row crop cultivator *

SWEEP (Soil and Water Environmental Enhancement program) The Soil and Water Environmental Enhancement Program (SWEEP_, was a Canadian agricultural program administered by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and carried out by the province of Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and ...

, a Canadian agricultural program 1986–1988

People with the name

Shaun Wright-Phillips Shaun Cameron Wright-Phillips (born 25 October 1981) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger. He played in the Premier League and Football League for Manchester City, Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers, in Major L ...

, a football player nicknamed Sweep

Sports

* Sweep (American football), a running play in American football * ** Packers sweep, a running play popularized by Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers * Sweep (martial arts), the name used for two categories of martial arts techniques * Sweep (rowing), a rowing technique *

Sweep shot In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter (historically, the ...

, a shot played in cricket *

Whitewash (sport) In sport, a whitewash or sweep is a series in which a person or team wins every game. Usage by sport Baseball In Major League Baseball, teams typically play multiple games against each other; if one team wins all the games in that series, it is ...

or sweep, winning a series or contest without any losses *

Curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding ...

involves sweeping on ice

Other meanings

Sweep (fish) The Scorpidinae, commonly known as halfmoons, knifefishes, and sweeps, are a subfamily of the family Kyphosidae, the sea chubs, a family of marine fish in the order Perciformes. The Scorpidinae are distributed throughout the Pacific and east Ind ...

, a number of fish in the suborder Scorpidinae *

Sweep (horse) Sweep (foaled 1907 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Background Sweep was bred by James R. Keene. He was sired by Kentucky Derby winner Ben Brush out of the Domino mare Pink Domino. he was trained by James Rowe. Sweep was ...

(1907–1936), champion Thoroughbred race horse *

Sweep (motorcycle) This is a glossary of motorcycling terms. ; advanced rider: In the UK, an advanced rider is either a police pursuit/surveillance rider or a civilian who has passed an advanced driving test via the British Motorcyclists Federation Blue Riband award ...

, in group motorcycle riding, the last rider in line *

Sweep (software) Sweep is a free and open-sourced digital audio editor and live playback tool for Unix-like systems such as Linux and Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It is able to handle a variety of sound formats, including MP3,AIFF, WAV, Speex and Og ...

, a digital audio editor * Sweep, a gradual bend or elbow, in conduit, ductwork, piping, or other tubing * Well sweep, an irrigation tool *

Sweep account A sweep account is an account set up at a bank or other financial institution where the funds are automatically managed between a primary cash account and secondary investment accounts. Function A sweep account combines two or more accounts at ...

, a kind of bank account * Sweep line algorithm, a concept in computational geometry * Sweeps, a regional English term for windmill sails * Sweepstakes, a sales promotion or lottery *

Swept wing A swept wing is a wing that angles either backward or occasionally forward from its root rather than in a straight sideways direction. Swept wings have been flown since the pioneer days of aviation. Wing sweep at high speeds was first investigate ...

, a layout of the wings on an airplane