Swing
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Swing can refer to:
- Swing (seat), a swinging suspended seat
- Swing (dance)
- Swinging, a wide range of sexual activities conducted between three or more people
In 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 seat (electoral), Marginal seat, a district or constituency held with a particularly small majority
- Swing state, in the U.S.
- Captain Swing, the imagined leader of the English rural uprising of 1830.
- Swing Riots, the English rural uprising of 1830.
- Captain Swing (play), the play by Peter Whelan.
In sports:
- Swing bowling, a subtype of fast bowling in cricket
- A golf swing
- A baseball swing
In music:
- Swung note, changes in the durations of pairs of notes
- Swing (genre), a style of music, also called swing jazz
- Swing!, a Broadway musical
- An understudy in musical theatre
- Swing (musical group), a Canto Duo Group
- Swing, a Franco-Ontarian musical group
- Swing Out Sister, a rock-jazz-pop musical group
- Swing Kids, a group of jazz and Swing lovers in the Germany of the 1930s and a movie drama about such adolescents
- Swing Kids, a hardcore punk band from San Diego, California in the mid 1990s
- Swing, a song by New Zealand artist Savage
- Swing, a 2006 song by Trace Adkins
- Swing, a Hong Kong music group comprising of Eric Kwok and Jerald Chan
In computing:
- Swing (Java), Sun's lightweight GUI library for the Java language
In entertainment:
- Swing, a video game for the Playstation
- Swing Kids, a 1993 Thomas Carter film
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