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swing
English
- 🔊 changing location by moving back and forth
- 🔊 a square dance figure
- 🔊 a sweeping blow or stroke“he took a wild swing at my head”
- 🔊 mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- 🔊 a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s
- 🔊 a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity“the party went with a swing”
- 🔊 in baseball“he took a vicious cut at the ball”
- 🔊 a jaunty rhythm in music
- 🔊 the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- 🔊 alternate dramatically between high and low values“his mood swings”
- 🔊 hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement“The soccer player began to swing at the referee”
- 🔊 engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends“There were many swinging couples in the 1960's”
- 🔊 make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- 🔊 play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- 🔊 move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner“He swung back”
- 🔊 change direction with a swinging motion“swing back”
- 🔊 move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting“He swung his left fist”
- 🔊 be a social swinger
- 🔊 influence decisively“This action swung many votes over to his side”
- 🔊 live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style“The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely”
- 🔊 have a certain musical rhythm“The music has to swing”
- 🔊 hang freely“the ornaments dangled from the tree”
Spanish
- 🔊 columpio swing
- 🔊 golpe swing
- 🔊 hamaca swing
- 🔊 pendulazo swing
- 🔊 arrullar to swing
- 🔊 columpiar to swing
- 🔊 braceo swing, swinging
- 🔊 bambolear to swing, oscillate
- 🔊 balancear to swing, to rock, to sway
- 🔊 contonear to swing, sway, shake or shimmy part of the body while walking