Swing

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Swing, swinger, swingette, or swinging may refer to:

• Swing (seat), a swinging suspended seat, often found in playgrounds or backyards
• Swinging, the practice of engaging in non-monogamous sexual activities
• Swingette, a term used to describe the feminine gender engaging in swinging activities

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
• Marginal seat or swing 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

Sports

• Swing bowling, a subtype of fast bowling in cricket
• The golf swing
• baseball swing

Music and dance

• Swung note, changes in the durations of pairs of notes
• Swing music, a style of music also called swing jazz
• Swing (dance)
  • West Coast Swing
  • East Coast Swing
  • Lindy Hop
  • Jive (dance)
• Swing!, a Broadway musical
• An understudy in musical theatre
• Swing (musical group), a Cantonese Pop Music Duo Group comprising of Eric Kwok and Jerald Chan
• 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 1930s Germany
• Swing Kids (band), a hardcore punk band from San Diego, California in the mid 1990s
• Swing (Savage song), a song by New Zealand artist Savage
• Swing Time Records, a record label
• Swing (Manhattan Transfer album), 1997 album by The Manhattan Transfer
• New jack swing, a hybrid of hip hop and R&B that first emerged in 1987
• Fender Swinger, a rare vintage Fender guitar

Entertainment

• Swing (video game), a video game for the Playstation
• Swing Kids (film), a 1993 Thomas Carter film
• Swingers (1996 film), a 1996 American film directed by Doug Liman
• Swingers (2002 film), a 2002 Dutch film directed by Stephan Brenninkmeijer
• Swing Time, a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film
• Swing Out, Sister, a 1945 film
• "Swingers", the second episode of The Wonder Years
• Swinging (television), a 2005 and 2006 television sketch show
• Sex swing, a type of harness specifically for the purpose of sexual intercourse

Other

• Swing (Java), Sun\'s lightweight GUI library for the Java language
• Swinger, a submodel of the Dodge Dart
• Polaroid Swinger, a Polaroid camera model

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