Swing
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The term Swing has several meanings:
- Swing (dance), a kind of dance, including West Coast Swing and East Coast Swing.
- Swing (genre), a style of music.
- Swing language, another name for Jive talk.
- Swung note, a musical rhythm or technique.
- Swing (Java), Sun's Java program library including a set of lightweight GUI components.
- Swing (film), a film made in 2003 starring Jacqueline Bisset.
- A hanging seat in a playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing
- Swing bowling, a style of bowling in the sport of cricket.
- To swing, the act of being a part of the Swinging lifestyle.
- To swing, the act of two people (usually of opposite sex) circling while holding each other; done to music as part of a dance.
- Swing (politics), a mathematical calculation to measure vote changes.
- A swing seat in Australia, a swing state in the United States or a swing riding in Canada is an electoral division that may "swing" from one party to another at an election.
- Swing!, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical celebrating swing music.
