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'''Swing''' may refer to:
== Sports ==
* [[Swing bowling]], a subtype of fast bowling in cricket
* [[Golf#The golf swing|Golf swing]]
* [[Baseball#Batting|Baseball swing]]
* [[Swing (boxing)]]
== Dance==
* [[Swing (dance)]]
** [[West Coast Swing]]
** [[East Coast Swing]]
** [[Lindy Hop]]
** [[Jive (dance)]]
== Music==
===Key concepts===
* [[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 (music)|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 (Savage 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 guitar
== Films and television ==
* [[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)|Swingers]]", the second episode of ''The Wonder Years''
== 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 US
* [[Captain Swing]], an imaginary leader of the English rural uprising of 1830
** [[Swing Riots]], an English rural uprising of 1830
== Other ==
* [[Swing (video game)]], a video game for the Playstation
*[[Swing (seat)|suspended seat]], often found in backyards
* [[Captain Swing (play)]], a play by Peter Whelan
* [[Swing (Java)]], Sun's lightweight GUI library for the Java language
* Swinger, a submodel of the [[Dodge Dart]]
* [[Polaroid Swinger]], a Polaroid camera model
* [[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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