Swoop
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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 (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)
- Swoop (airline), Canadian ultra low-cost airline
See also
- Sheryl Swoopes
- Swoope (surname)
- Słup (disambiguation), toponym that sounds like swoop