Swift or SWIFT most commonly refers to: * SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks **

SWIFT code ISO 9362 is an international standard for Business Identifier Codes (BIC), a unique identifier for business institutions, approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). BIC is also known as SWIFT-BIC, SWIFT ID, or SWIFT code, ...

* Swift (programming language) * Swift (bird), a family of birds It may also refer to:

Organizations

* SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks * Swift Engineering, an American engineering firm * Swift & Company, a meat processing company *

Swifts (aerobatic team) The Swifts (russian: Стрижи, Strizhi}) is an aerobatic demonstrator team of the Russian Air Force, formed on 6 May 1991. The team currently performs with 6 MiG-29/29UB aircraft. Team roster The team roster today unchanged since 2008. A ...

, a Russian aerobatic team

Transportation companies

Swift Cooper {{Use British English, date=November 2017 Swift Cooper is a British race car constructor. The company was formed in 1986, when Frank Bradley bought the rights to the Swift name from Swift Engineering, and set up the company at Snetterton race co ...

, a British racing car manufacturer *

Swift Leisure Swift Leisure are a British manufacturer of leisure vehicles, including caravans and motorhomes. Started in 1964, the company is based in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire. It celebrated its Golden 50th year in 2014, with the launch of SMART ...

, a British manufacturer of caravans *

Swift Motor Company The Swift Motor Company made Swift Cars in Coventry, England from 1900 until 1931. It grew progressively from James Starley's Coventry Sewing Machine Company, via bicycle and motorised cycle manufacture. The cars ranged from a single-cylinder ca ...

, of Coventry, England *

Swift Transportation Swift Transportation is a Phoenix, Arizona-based American truckload motor shipping carrier, part of Knight-Swift. With over 23,000 trucks, it is the largest common carrier in the United States. In 2017, Swift merged with Knight Transportation, ...

, a US trucking company

Places

River Swift The River Swift is a 14-mile (23 km) long tributary of the River Avon that rises in south Leicestershire, and flows through the town of Lutterworth before joining the Avon at its confluence at Rugby in Warwickshire in the English Midlan ...

, a river in England *

Swift, Illinois Swift is an unincorporated community in Bloomingdale Township, DuPage County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metro ...

, an unincorporated community in northeastern Illinois *

Swift County, Minnesota Swift County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,838. Its county seat is Benson. History Swift County is in west central Minnesota and consists of with three tiers of seven townships each. ...

, a county in west-central Minnesota *

Swift, Minnesota Swift is an unincorporated community in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States. The community is located east-southeast of Warroad on State Highway 11 ( MN 11). Swift is located within Laona Township and Moranville Township. Nearby places in ...

, an unincorporated community in northern Minnesota * Swift, Missouri, a ghost town in southeastern Missouri

Astronomy

* Swift (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon *

Swift (Deimian crater) Swift crater is a crater on Mars's moon Deimos. It is about in diameter. Swift crater is named after Jonathan Swift, whose 1726 book ''Gulliver's Travels'' predicted the existence of two moons of Mars. Swift crater is one of two named features ...

, a crater on Deimos *

5035 Swift 5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on eac ...

(1991 UX), a Main-belt Asteroid *

Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, previously called the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, is a NASA three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and monitoring the afterglow in X-ray, and UV/Visible light at the location o ...

, a NASA spacecraft in low-Earth orbit

Biology

* Swift (bird), a family of birds * Swift butterflies, several genera in the skipper butterfly tribe

Gegenini Baorini is a tribe in the Hesperiinae subfamily of skipper butterflies. Genera * '' Baoris'' * '' Borbo'' * '' Brusa'' * '' Caltoris'' * '' Gegenes'' * ''Iton'' * '' Parnara'' * ''Pelopidas Pelopidas (; grc-gre, Πελοπίδας; died 3 ...

* Swift lizards, iguanian lizards typically of the genus '' Sceloporus'' ** Snow swift lizards, of the iguanian genus '' Liolaemus'' *

Swift moth The Hepialidae are a family of insects in the lepidopteran order. Moths of this family are often referred to as swift moths or ghost moths. Taxonomy and systematics The Hepialidae constitute by far the most diverse group of the infraorder Exopo ...

, of the family Hepialidae * Swift fox, a species of North American fox

Computing and telecommunication

Swift (distributed storage) OpenStack is a free, open standard cloud computing platform. It is mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in both public and private clouds where virtual servers and other resources are made available to users. The software plat ...

, OpenStack's distributed storage component * Swift (programming language), a programming language developed by Apple Inc. * Swift (parallel scripting language), a programming language for parallel computing developed at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory * Swift (SoC) platform by Philips * Swift, the ARM architecture CPU core in the Apple A6 and Apple A6X * Swift, an XMPP client for Windows, Mac and Linux * SWIFT – System for wireless infotainment forwarding and teledistribution: former abbreviation for Data Radio Channel , DAta Radio Channel (DARC) subcarrier messaging standard

Transportation

Aircraft

* Aériane Swift, a Belgian sail plane design * Comper Swift, a British 1930s single-seat sporting aircraft * Globe GC-1 Swift, an American two-seat light airplane produced from 1946 to 1951 * Swift S-1, a Polish sailplane * Supermarine Swift, a British jet fighter built after World War II

Land

* Leyland Swift, a British mid-sized bus * Suzuki Swift, a car * Skokie Swift, now known as the CTA Yellow Line, between Chicago and Skokie, IL, US * Swift Bus Rapid Transit, in Snohomish County, Washington, US

Water

* Swift Boat (disambiguation)

Military

* HSV-2 Swift, HSV-2 ''Swift'', a non-commissioned catamaran leased by the United States Navy ** Swift Boats, used by the US Navy in the Vietnam War * Swift-class coastal patrol craft, patrol vessels built for the Republic of Singapore Navy * HMS Swift, HMS ''Swift'', several ships of British Royal Navy * Operation Swift, in the Vietnam War

Music

* Taylor Swift, American country and pop singer-songwriter * Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), US rapper in D12 * Miss Swift, character in Cardiacs

Sport

* Swifts F.C., a defunct English football club * New South Wales Swifts, an Australian netball team

People

* Swift (surname) ** Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish writer **Taylor Swift, American singer and songwriter

Fictional characters

* Tom Swift, the central character in five series of books of juvenile science fiction and adventure novels, first appearing in 1910 * Tom Swift Jr., following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift novels, first appearing in 1954 * Swift Alternetter, a character in the film ''Cars'' * Swift (character), comic-book character from ''The Authority'' * Swift Wind, is fictional character from ''She-Ra: Princess of Power''

Other uses

* Swifts, Darling Point, a mansion in Sydney, Australia * Structured What If Technique, in risk management * ISO 9362, the SWIFT/BIC code standard in banking * Swift (textiles), tool used to hold a hank of yarn * .220 Swift, a rifle cartridge * Swift card, a card on public transport in Birmingham, United Kingdom * ''Swift'', a newsletter of the James Randi Educational Foundation * Swift (comic), ''Swift'' (comic), a Hulton Press publication related to ''Eagle''