Swoop

Swoop may refer to:

As a verb

• To attack swiftly in a military offensive
• To fly or glide downward, as in
  • Fixed-wing aircraft flight
  • Bird flight
  • Bat flight
  • Insect flight
• A bird that attacks a person to defend its nest is said to swoop the person

Entertainment

• Swoop (Australian band)
• Swoop (Belgian band)
• Swoop (8-bit computer game), Galaxian clone for 8-bit computers
• The Swoop, a novel by P. G. Wodehouse
• Swoop (Transformers), several fictional characters in the Transformers series

Mascots

• Swoop (Eastern Michigan University), mascot name for Eastern Michigan University athletics
• Swoop (Eastern Washington University), mascot name for Eastern Washington University athletics
• Swoop (Emory University), mascot name for Emory University Athletics
• Swoop (Miami University), mascot name for Miami University athletics
• Swoop (Philadelphia Eagles), mascot for the Philadelphia Eagles NFL team
• Swoop (South Bend Silver Hawks), is the mascot name for the South Bend Silver Hawks
• Swoop (University of Utah), mascot name for the University of Utah

Other uses

• Swoop bike
• A nickname given to a Marine Corps helicopter pilot
• A kind of canopy piloting
• 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
• Swoope (surname)