- Swing
Swing may refer to:
ports
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Swing bowling , a subtype of fast bowling in cricket
* Golf swing
* Baseball swing
*Swing (boxing) Dance
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Swing (dance)
**West Coast Swing
**East Coast Swing
**Lindy Hop
**Jive (dance) Music
Key concepts
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Swung note , changes in the durations of pairs of notes
*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"Other applications
* An
understudy in musical theatre who prepares several roles
* "Swing! ", a Broadway musical
*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 (song) , a song by New Zealand performer 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 guitarFilms and television
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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" (Wonder Years episode), the second episode of "The Wonder Years"Politics
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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 US
*Captain Swing , an imaginary leader of the English rural uprising of 1830
**Swing Riots , an English rural uprising of 1830Computing
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Swing (Java) , Sun's lightweight GUI library for the Java language
*Swing (video game) , a video game for the Playstation
*Polaroid Swinger , a Polaroid camera modelOther uses
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Swing (seat) , a suspended seat often found in backyards
*Captain Swing (play) , a play by Peter Whelan
* Swinger, a submodel of theDodge Dart
*Sex swing , a type of harness specifically for the purpose of sexual intercourse
*Swingette , a term used to describe the feminine gender engaging in swinging activities
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