Swoop

As a verb, swoop may mean:

• Attack swiftly in a military offensive
• Fly or glide downward, as in
  • Fixed-wing aircraft flight
  • Bird flight
    • In Australia, a bird that attacks a person to defend its nest is said to swoop the person
  • Bat flight
  • Insect flight

As a noun, swoop may mean:

• www.swoop.ie, a haven for all things handmade in Ireland
• Swoop (Transformers), several fictional characters in the Transformers series
• A swoop bike
• The Southwestern Ontario Organization of Parachutists
• Swoop (mascot), A costumed mascot for various Universities and the NFL Philadelphia Eagles' mascot
• The red-tailed hawk mascot of the Utah Utes, the sports teams of the University of Utah
• The mascot of the Miami RedHawks of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
• A nickname given to a Marine Corps helicopter pilot
• The Swoop, a novel by P. G. Wodehouse
• Swoop (computer game), Galaxian clone for Mac OS
• Swoop (8-bit computer game), Galaxian clone for 8-bit computers
• Swooping is a kind of canopy piloting

In music, swoop may refer to:

• Swoop Records, a German record label
• Swoop (Australian band)
• Swoop (Belgian band)

Swoops may refer to:

• Swoops, a candy manufactured by The Hershey Company
• SWOOPS, Solar Wind Observations Over the Poles of the Sun, an instrument aboard Ulysses (spacecraft)

See also

• Sheryl Swoopes