Swing

Quick meaning: Swing is a verb meaning (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.

Meaning

(intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To dance.
2. (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
3. (intransitive, sex) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
4. (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
5. (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
6. (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
7. (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.

Example Sentences

The plant swung in the breeze.

The children laughed as they swung.

My husband wasn’t so lucky and didn’t get to swing at all so was very disappointed. I’m desperate to do it all again but he’s not so keen.

With one accord the tribe swung rapidly toward the frightened cries, and there found Terkoz holding an old female by the hair and beating her unmercifully with his great hands.

Word Forms

• swings
• swinging

Synonyms for swing

Depending on context, synonyms include dangle, hang, trine, truss, lilt, sweep.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sway, dangle, sweep, cut, jive, drop.

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