What is Swing?

Information about Swing

Swing, swinger, or swinging may refer to:

Swing (seat), a swinging suspended seat, often found in playgrounds or backyards
Swinging, a wide range of sexual activities conducted between three or more people

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
Swing of the Quad Cities, a minor league baseball team in Davenport, Iowa

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 nearly seamless hybrid of hip hop and R&B that first emerged in 1987
Fender Swinger, a rare vintage guitar of Fender

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 (TV show), a 2005 and 2006 television sketch show

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

swing is a hanging seat, usually found in a playground for children, a circus for acrobats, or on a porch for relaxing. The seat of a swing can be attached to a chain or a rope.
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Swinging, sometimes referred to as the swinging lifestyle, is "non-monogamous sexual activity, treated much like any other social activity, that can be experienced as a couple.
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Swing in a British political context is a single figure used as an indication of the scale of voter change between two political parties. It originated as a mathematical calculation for comparing the results of two constituencies.
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swing is used in Australia in a different sense from that employed in Britain, where the term originated (see Swing (politics)). For the Australian House of Representatives (and for the lower houses of the parliaments of all the states and territories except Tasmania and the ACT),
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A marginal seat is a constituency held with a particularly small majority in a legislative election conducted under a single-winner rather than a proportional representation voting system.
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swing state (also, battleground state) in United States presidential politics is a state in which no candidate has overwhelming support, meaning that any of the major candidates have a reasonable chance of winning the state's electoral college votes.
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Captain Swing was the name appended to some of the threatening letters during the rural English Swing Riots of 1830. These were popular protests by impoverished farm workers across the agricultural south of England, and they had a number of structural causes.
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The Swing Riots were a widespread uprising by the rural workers of the arable south and east of England in 1830. The rioters, largely impoverished and landless agricultural labourers, sought to halt reductions in their wages and to put a stop to the introduction of the new
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This article is about the Peter Whelan play. For the letters of the Swing Riots, see Captain Swing.

Captain Swing is a 1979 play by British playwright Peter Whelan. It was Whelan's first play for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Swing bowling is a technique used for bowling in the sport of cricket. Practitioners are known as swing bowlers. Swing bowling is generally classed as a subtype of fast bowling.
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Swing of the Quad Cities Founded in 1960
Davenport, Iowa

Team Logo Cap Insignia
Class-Level

Single-A (1960-present)

Minor League affiliations

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swung note or shuffle note is the rhythmic device in which the duration of the initial note in a pair is augmented and that of the second is diminished. A swing or shuffle rhythm is the rhythm produced by playing repeated pairs of notes in this way.
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Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of jazz music that developed during the 1920s and had solidified as a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States.
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The term "swing dance" is commonly used to refer either to a group of dances developing in response to swing music in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, or to lindy hop, a popular partner dance today.
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West Coast Swing (WCS) is a partner dance derived from Lindy Hop. It is characterised by a distinctive elastic look that results from its basic extension-compression technique of partner connection, and is danced primarily in a slotted area on the dance floor.
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East Coast Swing (ECS) is a social partner dance primarily derived from the Eastern Swing Dance. Eastern Swing, in turn, was evolved from Foxtrot or more specifically its leaping version known as Shag.
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Lindy hop is an African American dance that evolved in New York City in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It was an organic fusion of many dances that preceded it or were popular during its development but was predominantly based on jazz, tap, breakaway and charleston.
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Jive is a dance style in 4/4 time that originated among African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, i.e., belongs to Swing dances.

In Ballroom dancing, Jive is one of the five International Latin dances.
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Swing!
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Music Various
Lyrics Various
Book Revue

Productions 1999 Broadway Swing! is a musical conceived by Paul Kelley with music by various artists.
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An understudy is a theatrical term for someone who learns the lines and blocking/choreography of a leading actor or actress in a theatrical play. Should the lead actor or actress be unable to appear on stage because of illness or accident, the understudy takes over the part.
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For the 1945 film with Arthur Treacher, see .

Swing Out Sister is a British sophisti-pop musical group best known worldwide for their 1987 song "Breakout", which was their only song to reach the US top 10.
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Swing Kids (German: Swingjugend) were a group of jazz and Swing lovers in the Germany of the 1930s, mainly in Hamburg (St. Pauli) and Berlin. They were composed of 14- to 18-year old boys and girls in high school, most of them middle- or upper-class students, but some
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Swing Kids were a hardcore/screamo band from San Diego California during the mid 1990s. The band members were Eric Allen (of Unbroken), Jose Palafox (of Struggle and Bread and Circuits), John Brady (of Spanakorzo and Sweep The Leg Johnny), and frontman Justin Pearson, who would
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Released January 2005
Format CD Single
Recorded 2005
Genre Rap/Hip hop
Label Dawn Raid Entertainment
Peak chart positions

#1 (NZ)
#36 (AUS)

Savage singles chronology

Hook Up
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Swing Time Records was a United States based record label, active in the 1940s. The label was headquartered in Los Angeles, California.