Swing or swinging may refer to:

Apparatus

Swing (seat) A swing is a seat, often found at playgrounds for children, at a circus for acrobatics, acrobats, or on a porch for relaxing, although they may also be items of indoor furniture, such as the Latin American hammock or the Indian oonjal. The seat ...

, a hanging seat that swings back and forth *

Pendulum A pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the ...

, an object that swings *

Russian swing A Russian swing is a large, floor-mounted swing which is sometimes used in circus performances to make impressive high acrobatic jumps. Unlike ordinary playground swings, a Russian swing has steel bars instead of ropes, and its swinging platform ...

, a swing-like circus apparatus *

Sex swing A sex swing (also known as a sling) is a type of harness designed to allow sexual intercourse between one partner suspended by the swing and another who moves freely. Though there is considerable variety in the design, the most common sex swings ...

, a type of harness for sexual intercourse *

Swing ride The swing ride or chair swing ride (sometimes called a swing carousel, wave swinger, yo-yo, waver swinger, Chair-O-Planes, Dodo or swinger) is an amusement ride that is a variation on the carousel in which the seats are suspended from the rot ...

, an amusement park ride consisting of suspended seats that rotate like a merry-go-round

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''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'' (2021 film), an American film by Michael Mailer

Music

Styles

Swing (jazz performance style) In music, the term ''swing'' has two main uses. Colloquially, it is used to describe the propulsive quality or "feel" of a rhythm, especially when the music prompts a visceral response such as foot-tapping or head-nodding (see pulse). This sens ...

, the sense of propulsive rhythmic "feel" or "groove" in jazz *

Swing music Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s. The name derived from its emphasis on the off-beat, or nominally weaker beat. Swing bands ...

, a style of jazz popular during the 1930s–1950s

Groups and labels

* Swing (Canadian band), a Canadian néo-trad band * Swing (Hong Kong band), a Hong Kong pop music group *

Swing Time Records Swing Time Records was a United States-based record label active in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The label was founded by Jack Lauderdale in 1947 as Down Beat Records and was headquartered in Los Angeles, California. In approximately October ...

, a record label

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'', a 2009 album by

Christian De Sica Christian De Sica (; born 5 January 1951) is an Italian actor and film director. Life De Sica was born in Rome the second son of Italian director Vittorio De Sica and Spanish actress María Mercader. His first cousin once removed was Ramón M ...

* ''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 * "Swing" (Sofi Tukker song), 2019 * "The Swing" (song), 1997, by American country music artist James Bonamy * "

Swing, Swing "Swing, Swing" is a song by American rock band the All-American Rejects, released as their debut single from their self-titled debut studio album on December 2, 2002. Background "Swing, Swing" was written by Nick Wheeler and Tyson Ritter. Accordi ...

", 2003, by the All-American Rejects * "Swing", 1980, by Japan from the album ''

Gentlemen Take Polaroids ''Gentlemen Take Polaroids'' is the fourth studio album by the English band Japan, released in November 1980 by Virgin Records. Background ''Gentlemen Take Polaroids'' was the band's first album for the Virgin Records label after leaving Han ...

'' * "Swing", 2015, by Knuckle Puck from the album '' Copacetic'' * "Swing", 2012, by Parkway Drive from the album ''

Atlas An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a region of Earth. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geographic ...

'' * "Swing", 2014, by Super Junior-M from the album '' Swing'' * "Swing", 1983, by

Yello Yello is a Swiss electronic music band, which formed in Zürich in 1979. For most of the band's history, Yello has been a duo consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank; founding member Carlos Perón left in 1983. Their sound is often charac ...

* "Swing", 2019, by Brooke Candy from the album '' Sexorcism''

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Swing (dance) Swing dance is a group of Social dance, social dances that developed with the swing music, swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s, with the origins of each dance predating the popular "swing era". Hundreds of styles of swing dancing were ...

, a group of dances that correspond to swing style of jazz music * ''Swing'' (musical), a 1999 Broadway musical * ''Swing'' (video game), a 1997 video game for the PC and PlayStation * Swing, an

understudy In theater, an understudy, referred to in opera as cover or covering, is a performer who learns the lines and blocking or choreography of a regular actor, actress, or other performer in a play. Should the regular actor or actress be unable to ap ...

in the musical theatre who prepares several roles * ''The Swing'' (painting), a 1767 rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Politics

Swing (politics) An electoral swing analysis (or swing) shows the extent of change in voter support, typically from one election to another, expressed as a positive or negative percentage. A multi-party swing is an indicator of a change in the electorate's prefer ...

, the extent of change in voter support **

Swing (Australian politics) The term swing refers to the extent of change in voter support, typically from one election or opinion poll to another, expressed as a positive or negative percentage point. For the Australian House of Representatives and the lower houses of the p ...

, 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 "Captain Swing" was a name that was appended to several threatening letters during the rural Swing Riots of 1830, when labourers rioted over the introduction of new threshing machines and the loss of their livelihoods. The name was made-up and ...

, 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 attempting to hit a ball with a bat in the game of baseball * Golf swing or

golf stroke mechanics The golf swing is the action by which players hit the ball in the sport of golf. The golf swing is a complex motion involving the whole body; the technicalities of the swing are known as golf stroke mechanics. There are differing opinions on what ...

, the means by which golfers analyze the execute their shots in the sport of golf *

Swing bowling Swing bowling is a technique used for bowling in the sport of cricket. Practitioners are known as swing bowlers. Swing bowling is generally classed as a subtype of fast bowling. The aim of swing bowling is to cause the ball to move in the ai ...

, a subtype of fast bowling in cricket

Transportation

Aquilair Swing The Aquilair Swing is a French ultralight trike that was designed and produced by Aquilair of Theizé. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directo ...

, a French ultralight trike aircraft design *

S-Wing Swing The S-Wing Swing (called the S-wing Aircraft Swing 06 in the United States) is a high-wing, two-seat, single-engine ultralight/light sport aircraft designed and built in the Czech Republic.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Direct ...

, light sport aircraft designed and built in the Czech Republic * Swing Bike, a bicycle where both front and rear wheels are steerable *

Swing Flugsportgeräte Swing Flugsportgeräte GmbH ( en, Swing Air Sports Equipment Limited, italic=yes) is a German aircraft manufacturer based in Landsberied, west of Munich, near the Bavarian Alps.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure ...

, German aircraft manufacturer

Other uses

Swing (Java) Swing is a GUI widget toolkit for Java. It is part of Oracle's Java Foundation Classes (JFC) – an API for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for Java programs. Swing was developed to provide a more sophisticated set of GUI c ...

, a GUI widget toolkit for the Java programming language * Swing (surname) *

Swing rifle The Swing rifle was a design developed by a number of target shooting enthusiasts who came together in 1970 at Bisley. The design's primary instigators were George Swenson and Laurie Ingram. At the time target rifle competition in the UK was dom ...

, type of firearm *

Swing trading Swing trading is a speculative trading strategy in financial markets where a tradable asset is held for one or more days in an effort to profit from price changes or 'swings'. A swing trading position is typically held longer than a day trading po ...

, when a tradable asset is held for one or more days to profit from price changes *

Swinging (sexual practice) Swinging, sometimes called wife-swapping, husband-swapping, or partner-swapping, is a sexual activity in which both singles and partners in a committed relationship sexually engage with others for recreational purposes. Swinging is a form of non-m ...

, when partners in a committed relationship engage in sexual activities with others