Swing

//ˈswɪŋ//

Synonyms for "swing" (694 found)

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Closest matches (139)

dangle lilt accent accentuation accomplish acid rock act acting action activism activity air space alexandrine alternate amble amphibrach amphimacer ample scope anacrusis anapest

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animated antispast arsis asking price avant-garde jazz avert bacchius back and fill backhand backhander backstroke bag ballroom music bang barge baseball swing bash bat battledore and shuttlecock be hanged be promiscuous bearing bearish prices beat beating bebop behavior belt bend to bias bid price biff blank check blow blow hot and cold blunder bob bobble bolo punch bonk boogie woogie boogie-woogie book value bop bowl along brandish bullish prices bundle cadence cadency caesura call price careen career carousel carte blanche cascade catalexis chair change chase women chloriamb chloriambus chop chute chute-the-chutes chutes circle circulate circumrotate circumvolute clear clear the hurdle clearance clip closing price clout clump coggle colon come about come along come and go come on coming and going commit adultery concert conduce contribute contrive cooking counterpoint country rock course crack crank cretic current cut cut and thrust cut the mustard dactyl dactylic hexameter daggle dance dance music dance upon nothing dances dash debauch

Verb(6 words)

dangle dance on a rope dance on nothing dance the hempen jig dance the tyburn jig dance upon nothing

Noun(3 words)

progression baseball swing cut

Strong matches (208)

decline deflect depend diaeresis dig dimeter dint dipody direction dispense dispose dissipate divert dochmiac doing drabble drag draggle dramatico-musical drape

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drapery drift droop drub drubbing drumming ebb and flow elbowroom elegiac elegiac couplet elegiac pentameter emphasis employment engineer epitrite execute exercise extreme face value fall falter feint feminine caesura ferris wheel fetch about field fixed price flail at flail away at flap flapping flash price flaunt flicker float flop flounce flounder flourish flourishing flow fluctuate fluctuating fluctuation flurry flutter flux fly flying horses folk rock foot footslog fornicate free course free hand free play free scope full scope full swing function functioning fusillade gait gallop get along get by get on glacial movement go go about go around go on go round go through phases going golf stroke groove grovel gyrate gyre hack it halt handle hang hang down hard rock hassock have a tendency haymaker head headroom heave heel heptameter heptapody heroic couplet hexameter hexapody high hippety-hop hit hit at hitch hitch and hike hobble hobbyhorse home thrust hook hop hot jazz iamb iambic iambic pentameter ictus in full swing incline instrumental ionic issue par issue price jab jazz jazzy jiggle jingle jive jog jolt jump kick the air knack knock labor lash out at latitude lead lean leeway let drive at let fly at librate libration lick limits limp line lively lock step long melford long rope look to lop low lumber lunge lunge at lurch main current mainstream mainstream jazz make heavy weather make it make out make the grade manage manage somehow maneuver maneuvering space manipulate margin market price market value masculine caesura measure merry-go-round meter metrical accent metrical foot

Verb(5 words)

die by hanging drop get around hang hinge

Noun(5 words)

golf shot golf stroke hinge jive lilt

Related words (347)

metrical group metrical unit metrics metron metronome mince mincing steps molossus mora motion movement movements moving muddle through musical suite negotiate no holds barred nod nominal value number

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numbers nutate occupation offering price on the hop on the move one-two open space opening price operation operations orchestral oscillate oscillating oscillation oscillator pace paddle paeon par par value parity pass pass and repass pattern peg pelt pend pendant pendulate pendulum pentameter pentapody period philander piaffe piaffer pirouette pitch pitch and plunge pitch and toss pivot pivot about play play jazz plod plunge plunk ply point point to poke poke at pound practice prance praxis price proceleusmatic prosody punch put about put over put price put through pyrrhic quantity quotation quoted price rack rag ragtime rake rally range rap rear reciprocate redound to reel resonate revolve rhyme rhythm rhythm-and-blues rhythmic pattern ride and tie ring the changes rock rock-and-roll rocker rocking chair rocking stone roll roller coaster room room to spare rope rotate round round-arm blow roundabout roundhouse routine run sag sashay saunter scend scope scrape along screw scuff scuffle scuttle sea room seat seesaw seethe serve set set toward settling price shake shamble sheer shift short-arm blow show a tendency shuffle shuttle shuttlecock sidewinder sidle single-foot skip slam sleep around slink slither slog slouch slowness slug smack smash sock space spare room spin spondee sprung rhythm stab stagger stalk stamp stated value step stomp straddle straggle stream stress stride strike at strike out at stroke stroll strolling gait struggle strut stumble stump succeed succeed in suffer hanging suite suite of dances suspend swag swagger swat sway swaying sweep swerve swing at swing on swing round swing the deal swinging swings swipe switch swivel symphonic syncopate syncopated syncopated music syncopation syzygy tattoo teeter teeter totter teeter-totter teeterboard teetery-bender tend tenor tetrameter tetrapody tetraseme the general tendency the main course the new music thesis thrash about thrust thrust at thump thwack time spirit tittup to-and-fro toddle tolerance tone toss toss and tumble toss and turn totter trail traipse tread trend tribrach trick trimeter trip tripody triseme trochee trot trudge tumble turn turn a pirouette turn about turn around turn round turn tail twist under way undulate uppercut vacillate vary veer veer around velocity verge vibrate vibrating vibration vibrator volte-face volutation waddle wag waggle walk wallop wallow wamble wanton warp wave waver wavering waving wax and wane way weave weep welter whack wheel wheel about whip whirl whirligig whop whore wibble-wabble wide berth wield wiggle wigwag wind wing wobble wobbling womanize work work toward working workings worry along yaw yerk zeitgeist zigzag

Verb(12 words)

ride a horse foaled by an acorn rig stretch hemp string up sway sweep swing out swing over take a ride to tyburn trine truss wag hemp

Noun(3 words)

swing music swinging vacillation

Related word relations

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11 relation types

More general

44 entries

act upon action activeness activity aim blow change contra danse contradance contredanse country dancing country-dance direct displace fornicate go

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Synonyms

4 entries

baseball swing dangle golf stroke lilt

at location

1 entries

porch

coordinate

1 entries

fry

derived

85 entries

Kuznets swing Russian swing Tarzan swing Western swing at church every time the doors swing open away swing bird's nest swing check swing check-swing come out swinging compass swing electro swing go with a swing gypsy swing in full swing love swing

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has context

7 entries

boxing carpentry cricket engineering music nautical politics

is a

8 entries

action blow country dance jazz mechanical device motion plaything seat

manner of

12 entries

aim be change fornicate influence live move move back and forth play socialize travel wield

part of

2 entries

playground square dance

related to

42 entries

acrobats afford augment change children circus dance diameter election financially fixed fluctuate gallows genre hook incumbent

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troponym

2 entries

pivot swivel

Translations

348 translations across 79 languages.

Afrikaans

3 entries

skoppelmaai noun (hanging seat)
swaai noun (hanging seat)
swaai verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Albanian

4 entries

kolovajzë noun (hanging seat)
shilarth noun (hanging seat)
shilarës noun (hanging seat)
shregull noun (hanging seat)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

αἰώρα noun (hanging seat)

Arabic

4 entries

أُرْجُوحَة noun (hanging seat)
حطيشة noun (hanging seat)
زعلولة noun (hanging seat)
زيطة noun (hanging seat)

Armenian

4 entries

ճլորթի noun (hanging seat)
ճոճ noun (hanging seat)
ճոճանակ noun (hanging seat)
ճոճել verb (to move an object backward and forward)

Aromanian

1 entries

leagãn verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Azerbaijani

3 entries

kuf noun (hanging seat)
yelləncək noun (hanging seat)
yırğalanmaq verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Basque

2 entries

kulunka noun (hanging seat)
zabu noun (hanging seat)

Belarusian

3 entries

арэлі noun (hanging seat)
гушкалка noun (hanging seat)
качэлі noun (hanging seat)

Bulgarian

4 entries

амплитуда noun (amount of change towards or away from)
замах noun (manner in which something is swung)
люлка noun (hanging seat)
отклонение noun (amount of change towards or away from)

Catalan

4 entries

gronxador noun (hanging seat)
balancejar verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
engronsar verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
girar verb (to fluctuate or change)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

جۆلانە noun (hanging seat)

Chinese

1 entries

韆鞦 /千秋 noun (hanging seat)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

韆鞦 /千秋 noun (hanging seat)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

鞦韆 /秋千 noun (hanging seat)
搖擺 /摇摆 verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
擺 /摆 verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
擺動 /摆动 verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Czech

4 entries

houpačka noun (hanging seat)
máchnutí noun (manner in which something is swung)
swing noun (dance style)
zhoupnutí noun (manner in which something is swung)

Danish

1 entries

gynge noun (hanging seat)

Dutch

4 entries

schommel noun (hanging seat)
swing noun (dance style)
uithaal noun (type of hook in boxing)
zwaai noun (type of hook in boxing)

Esperanto

4 entries

pendolilo noun (hanging seat)
svingo noun (dance style)
svingo noun (music style)
svingomuziko noun (music style)

Estonian

2 entries

kiiged noun (hanging seat)
kiik noun (hanging seat)

Finnish

4 entries

heijari noun (type of hook in boxing)
heilahdus noun (amount of change towards or away from)
heilahdus noun (electoral change)
heilautus noun (manner in which something is swung)

French

4 entries

balancement noun (manner in which something is swung)
balançoire noun (hanging seat)
coup de poing balancé noun (type of hook in boxing)
doublure noun (substitute musical theater performer)

Gagauz

1 entries

sallangaç noun (hanging seat)

Galician

4 entries

bambán noun (hanging seat)
randeeira noun (hanging seat)
arfar verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
bambear verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

German

4 entries

Hutsche noun (hanging seat)
Schaukel noun (hanging seat)
Swing noun (music style)
baumeln verb (to hang on gallows)

Greek

4 entries

κούνια noun (hanging seat)
μεταστροφή noun (electoral change)
σουίνγκ noun (music style)
κουνιέμαι verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Gujarati

1 entries

સ્વિંગ noun (hanging seat)

Hakka Chinese

1 entries

晃槓仔 /晃杠仔 noun (hanging seat)

Hebrew

1 entries

נַדְנֵדָה noun (hanging seat)

Hungarian

4 entries

hinta noun (hanging seat)
himbálózik verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
leng verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
lóg verb (to hang on gallows)

Icelandic

4 entries

róla noun (hanging seat)
sveifla noun (manner in which something is swung)
sveifla noun (music style)
hanga verb (to hang on gallows)

Indonesian

1 entries

bandul noun (type of hook in boxing)

Ingrian

4 entries

leekku noun (hanging seat)
horjua verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
häilyä verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
häylyä verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Irish

1 entries

luascán noun (hanging seat)

Italian

4 entries

altalena noun (hanging seat)
altalenare verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
altalenare verb (to ride on a swing)
dondolare verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Japanese

4 entries

スイング noun (music style)
ブランコ noun (hanging seat)
鞦韆 noun (hanging seat)
振れる verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Kannada

1 entries

ಉಯ್ಯಾಲೆ noun (hanging seat)

Kazakh

4 entries

айткеліншек noun (hanging seat)
свинг noun (music style)
сүре соғу noun (type of hook in boxing)
әлпеншек noun (hanging seat)

Khmer

2 entries

ទោង noun (hanging seat)
យោល verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Korean

2 entries

그네 noun (hanging seat)
그네뛰다 verb (to ride on a swing)

Latgalian

4 entries

airis noun (hanging seat)
airis noun (hanging seat)
leigačys noun (hanging seat)
šyupelis noun (hanging seat)

Latin

3 entries

cunae noun (hanging seat)
oscillum noun (hanging seat)
oscillo verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Latvian

1 entries

šūpoles noun (hanging seat)

Lithuanian

1 entries

suptis verb (to ride on a swing)

Livonian

1 entries

äl noun (hanging seat)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

schaukelen verb (to ride on a swing)

Macedonian

4 entries

за́мав noun (amount of change towards or away from)
лу́лашка noun (hanging seat)
ни́шалка noun (hanging seat)
свинг noun (dance style)

Malay

3 entries

buaian noun (hanging seat)
berayun verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
buai verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Malayalam

1 entries

ഊഞ്ഞാൽ noun (hanging seat)

Manchu

1 entries

ᠴᡝᡴᡝ noun (hanging seat)

Mansaka

1 entries

doyan noun (hanging seat)

Māori

4 entries

kautārere noun (hanging seat)
tārere noun (hanging seat)
kōpiupiu verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
moari verb (to ride on a swing)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

disse noun (hanging seat)
gynge noun (hanging seat)
huske noun (hanging seat)
disse verb (to ride on a swing)

Norwegian Nynorsk

4 entries

disse noun (hanging seat)
gynge noun (hanging seat)
huske noun (hanging seat)
disse verb (to ride on a swing)

Persian

2 entries

تاب noun (hanging seat)
گاز noun (hanging seat)

Polish

4 entries

huśtawka noun (hanging seat)
bachnąć verb (to move an object backward and forward)
huśtać się verb (to ride on a swing)
kołysać verb (to move an object backward and forward)

Portuguese

4 entries

balanço noun (hanging seat)
baloiço noun (hanging seat)
balouço noun (hanging seat)
swing noun (dance style)

Rarotongan

1 entries

tārere verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Romanian

4 entries

balans noun (manner in which something is swung)
leagăn noun (hanging seat)
balansa verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
legăna verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Russian

4 entries

взма́х noun (manner in which something is swung)
зама́х noun (manner in which something is swung)
каче́ли noun (hanging seat)
разма́х noun (manner in which something is swung)

Salar

1 entries

sallançaq noun (hanging seat)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries

ljuljaška noun (hanging seat)

Sicilian

2 entries

naca noun (hanging seat)
annacari verb (to move an object backward and forward)

Slovak

4 entries

hojdačka noun (hanging seat)
hojdať sa verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
rozhýbať verb (to make something work)
rozkývať verb (to make something work)

Spanish

4 entries

columpio noun (hanging seat)
fuin fuan noun (hanging seat)
hamaca noun (hanging seat)
swing noun (type of hook in boxing)

Swedish

4 entries

gunga noun (hanging seat)
gunga verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
gunga verb (to ride on a swing)
svinga verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Tahitian

1 entries

faʻaʻopaʻopa verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Tamil

1 entries

ஊஞ்சல் noun (hanging seat)

Telugu

2 entries

ఉయ్యాల noun (hanging seat)
ఊయల noun (hanging seat)

Thai

2 entries

ชิงช้า noun (hanging seat)
หมัดเหวี่ยงยาว noun (type of hook in boxing)

Tibetan

1 entries

ཇིང་ཏ་ལིང་ཏ noun (hanging seat)

Turkish

3 entries

salıncak noun (hanging seat)
yellencek noun (hanging seat)
sallamak verb (to move an object backward and forward)

Turkmen

1 entries

sallançak noun (hanging seat)

Ukrainian

2 entries

го́йдалка noun (hanging seat)
гойда́тися verb (to ride on a swing)

Vietnamese

3 entries

xích đu noun (hanging seat)
đu verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)
đung đưa verb (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point)

Volapük

1 entries

pendülöm noun (hanging seat)

Welsh

1 entries

siglen noun (hanging seat)

Yiddish

1 entries

הוידלקע noun (hanging seat)

Zazaki

4 entries

hêla noun (music style)
hêlnayış noun (dance style)
hêlık (diq) noun (hanging seat)
hêl kerden verb (to dance)

Sample sentences

40 total sentences available.

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The banquet was in full swing.

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The swing is moving up and down.

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"I am too old to swing on branches," said the boy.

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My wife had a hard time getting into the swing of our new life in America.

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