Sway may refer to:

Places

Sway, Hampshire Sway is a village and civil parish in Hampshire in the New Forest national park in England. The civil parish was formed in 1879, when lands were taken from the extensive parish of Boldre. The village has shops and pubs, and a railway station on ...

, a village and civil parish in the New Forest in England **

Sway railway station Sway railway station serves the village of Sway in Hampshire, England. It is located on the South West Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth. It is down the line from Waterloo. History The station is on the stretch of line opened on 6 ...

, serving the village

People

Sway (British musician) Derek Andrew Safo (born 5 September 1982), better known by his stage name Sway or Sway DaSafo, is a British rapper of Ghanaian descent. He is also a producer, having established Dcypha Productions, signed to Island/Universal (label founder). ...

(born 1983), British hip hop/grime singer *

Sway Calloway Sway Calloway is an American journalist, radio personality, executive producer and former rapper. Known as Sway, he is known for hosting music, news, and culture programming. He was the co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show ''The Wake U ...

(born 1971), American journalist, rapper, ''MTV News'' and radio anchor *

Sway Clarke II Sway Clarke is a Toronto born, Berlin based singer/songwriter. Upon his introduction, his music was compared to Frank Ocean, Lorde, Miguel, The Weeknd, Mikky Ekko and Coldplay. Sway Clarke's debut came as a featured vocalist and songwriter on "Te ...

, Canadian singer/songwriter *

Espen Lind Espen Lind (born 13 May 1971) is a Norwegian record producer, songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is one half of the production team Espionage, and together with his long time partner Amund Bjorklund he has written and/or produced ...

(born 1971), Norwegian singer who used the stage name Sway * Jose Penala, Jose "Sway" Penala, appeared on ''American Idol'' Season 5 * Susan Wayland (born 1980), German glamour and latex model nicknamed Sway *

Sway (Japanese rapper) , better known with his stage name "SWAY" is a Japanese rapper, actor, lyricist and producer managed by LDH and signed to Def Jam Recordings. He is a member of the group Doberman Infinity, of EXILE's theater company (Gekidan EXILE) and is also a ...

(born 1986), Japanese rapper and actor

Art and entertainment

Dance

Sway (dance) The term sway has a specific meaning in the technique of ballroom dances. Sway describes a dancer's body position in which the entire body gracefully deflects from the vertical, normally away from the standing foot and the direction of movement ...

, a motion in ballroom dance * Sway or ''

schunkeln Schunkeln (, ) is the name in the German language used to describe a certain rhythmic movement to the beat of a song, people link arms and sway side to side on the spot. This is done either standing or sitting were people move side to side on th ...

'', a side to side motion in beer and music halls

Albums

* ''Sway'' (Blue October album), by Blue October * ''Sway'' (Whirr album), by Whirr * ''Sway'' (Tove Styrke album), 2018

Songs

* "

¿Quién será? "¿Quién será?" is a bolero-mambo (music), mambo song written by Mexican composers Luis Demetrio and Pablo Beltrán Ruiz. Beltrán recorded the song for the first time with his orchestra in 1953. Pedro Infante, for whom the song was written, re ...

", or "Sway", a 1953 composition performed over the years by Dean Martin, Michael Bublé, Diana Krall, and many others * "Sway" (Rolling Stones song), a 1971 song by The Rolling Stones * "Sway" (Bic Runga song), a 1997 song by Bic Runga * "Sway" (The Kooks song), a 2008 song by The Kooks * "Sway" (Danielle Bradbery song), a 2017 song by Danielle Bradbery * "Sway" (Tove Styrke song), a 2018 song by Tove Styrke * "Sway", a song by Blue October, and the title track to the album '' Sway'' * "Sway", a song by

Coal Chamber Coal Chamber is an American nu metal band formed by Dez Fafara and Meegs Rascón in Los Angeles, California in 1993. Prior to Coal Chamber, the two had also created the band She's in Pain, in 1992. The original lineup also consisted of bassist ...

* "Sway", a song by Spiritualized from the album ''

Lazer Guided Melodies ''Lazer Guided Melodies'' is the debut studio album by English space rock band Spiritualized. The album was recorded by the inaugural line up of the band, consisting of Jason Pierce (vocals, guitars), Mark Refoy (guitars), Will Carruthers (bass) ...

'' * "Sway", a song by The Perishers from the album ''

Let There Be Morning ''Let There Be Morning'' is an album by The Perishers, released in 2003. The album was re-released in North America in 2005 under Nettwerk Nettwerk Music Group is the umbrella company for Nettwerk Records, Nettwerk Management, and Nettwerk ...

'' * "Sway", a song from ''

Believe in Nothing ''Believe in Nothing'' is the eighth studio album by British metal band Paradise Lost, released on 26 February 2001. Release The release for the album was postponed with the first release date being 18 September 2000, before settling to its ...

'' by

Paradise Lost ''Paradise Lost'' is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse (poetry), verse. A second edition fo ...

* "Sway...", a song by Lostprophets from the album ''

Start Something ''Start Something'' is the second studio album by the Welsh rock band Lostprophets, released on 2 February 2004 through Visible Noise in the United Kingdom and South Korea. The album was released internationally on 5 February 2004. The band bega ...

'' * "Sway With Me",

Bill Haley & His Comets Bill Haley & His Comets were an American rock and roll band founded in 1947 that continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band was also known as Bill Haley and the Comets and Bill Haley's Comets. From late 1954 to late 1956, the group record ...

, 1958, US Decca

Other art and entertainment

* ''Sway'' (novel), a 2014 young adult novel by Kat Spears * ''Sway'', a novel by

Zachary Lazar Zachary Lazar (born 1968) is an American novelist. Lazar was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He earned an A.B. degree in Comparative Literature from Brown University (1990) and M.F.A from the University of Iowa Iowa Writer's Workshop (1993). In 2015 ...

Sway (comics) Sabra Sabreclaw Sabreclaw is a character in the MC2 universe who first appeared in '' J2'' #8 (May 1999). He is the half-brother of Wild Thing and the son of Wolverine. The character has claws (similar to Sabretooth), a healing factor, enh ...

, a Marvel character * ''Sway'' (film), a 2006 Japanese movie *

Sex Week at Yale Organized originally in 2002 by then Yale College students Eric Rubenstein and Jacqueline Farber, Sex Week at Yale was a biennial event described on its website as "an interdisciplinary sex education program designed to pique students' interest th ...

(SWAY) was a biennial event from 2002 to 2012

Other uses

* Sway (Office app), a web-based presentation application by Microsoft * Sway, one of the linear

degrees of freedom Degrees of freedom (often abbreviated df or DOF) refers to the number of independent variables or parameters of a thermodynamic system. In various scientific fields, the word "freedom" is used to describe the limits to which physical movement or ...

in engineering *

Sway (translational motion) Ship motions are defined by the six degrees of freedom (mechanics), degrees of freedom that a ship, boat or any other craft (vehicle), craft can experience. Reference axes The ''flight control surfaces#Vertical axis, vertical/Z axis'', or ...

, one of the translational degrees of freedom of any stiff body (for example a vehicle), describing motion along the transversal axis (from side to side) *

Postural sway Balance in biomechanics, is an ability to maintain the line of gravity (vertical line from centre of mass) of a body within the base of support with minimal postural sway. Sway is the horizontal movement of the centre of gravity even when a perso ...

, horizontal shift of person's center of gravity while standing (or attempting to stand) still * Sway AS, a planned 10 MW

wind turbine A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. Hundreds of thousands of large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, now generate over 650 gigawatts of power, with 60 GW added each year. ...

Sway bar An anti-roll bar (roll bar, anti-sway bar, sway bar, stabilizer bar) is a part of many automobile suspension (vehicle), suspensions that helps reduce the body roll of a vehicle during fast cornering or over road irregularities. It connects opposi ...

, a part of an automobile suspension * USS ''Sway'' (AM-120), an ''Auk''-class minesweeper *

Sway (window manager) Sway is a tiling window manager and Wayland compositor, inspired by i3, and written in C. Sway is designed as a drop-in replacement for i3 using the more modern Wayland display server protocol and wlroots compositor library. Sway works with ex ...

, a Wayland window manager and compositor