Swing

Swing or swinging may refer to:

• Swing (seat), a suspended seat often found in backyards or playgrounds

Sports

• Baseball swing, a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each
• Golf swing, the means by which golfers make decisions (selecting clubs, selecting shots) and execute them (making shots) in the sport of golf
• Swing bowling, a subtype of fast bowling in cricket
• Swing (boxing)

Dance

• Swing (dance), a group of dances that correspond to swing style of jazz music

Music

Artists

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

Concepts

• Swing (jazz performance style), term used to describe the sense of propulsive rhythmic "feel" or "groove" in jazz
• Swing music, a style of jazz from the 1930s-1940s, also called "swing jazz"

Songs and albums

• Swing!, a 1999 Broadway musical
• Swing (album), 1997 album by The Manhattan Transfer
• "Swing" (song), a 2005 song by New Zealand performer Savage, released again in 2008 featuring Soulja Boy
• "Swing", a song by Trace Adkins
• "Swing", a song by Yello
• "Swing", a song by Taking Back Sunday
• Swing Time Records, a record label
• The Swing, a 1984 album by Australian rock band INXS
• "Swing, Swing", a 2003 song by the All-American Rejects
• "Swingin'", 1983 single by John Anderson
• "Swinging", a song by Tom Molloy

Other

• Swing, a term in musical theatre for an understudy who prepares several roles
• New jack swing, a hybrid of hip hop and R&B that first emerged in 1987
• Swinging, manipulation of poï in juggling

Films and television

• Swing! (film), a 1938 American film directed by Oscar Micheaux
• 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 (2011 film), a Kuwaiti short film

Politics

• Swing (politics), an indication of the scale of voter change
• Swing (Australian politics), the swing between the last two remaining parties in a preferential voting election
• Swing (United Kingdom), in a British political context is a single figure used as an indication of the scale of voter change between two political parties
• Captain Swing, an imaginary leader of the Swing Riots

Computing

• Swing (Java), Sun's lightweight GUI library for the Java programming language
• Swing (video game), a 1997 video game for the PC and PlayStation

Other uses

• Captain Swing (Whelan play), a 1979 play by Peter Whelan
• Sex swing, a type of harness specifically for the purpose of sexual intercourse
• The Swing (painting), a 1767 rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

See also

• Swinger (disambiguation)
• Swing rifles