↔️ To move back and forth ⚾ To hit with force ⚾ A strong hit 🏃 Active period 🪁 A seat for swinging 🔄 To change quickly 🎷 Lively jazz style 🗳️ To influence result ↔️ A back-and-forth movement 🎷 To play with rhythm 🔄 To swap partners 🎉 To party 💃 A dance move

swing

19 1.0

A repeated movement back and forth like a clock

noun
/swɪŋ/

: oscilación

The gentle back and forth motion of the swing helped calm her as she thought about her day.
pendulum swing
swing phase
stance and swing

It's the time it takes for the swing to go up and back.

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Examples

We've seen triple-digit swings in the stock market.

Killing Them Softly (2012)
It's the time it takes for the swing to go up and back.

MIT OpenCourseWare
It's like a swing set essentially, with a table in the middle.
When I stopped the swing to kiss her, I saw her eyes were wet.

Fiction book (1990)
These represent the successive swings back and forth.
There were twenty or so children on the swings, climbing bars, riding seesaws, laughing and shrieking with delight.

Fiction book (1995)
The children laughed and cheered as they took turns on the swing at the park.
On sunny afternoons, my favorite activity was to sit on the swing in the backyard and enjoy the breeze.

Synonyms

swinging

vsswing

4 1.2

A steady back and forth movement, like on a swing

is broader, meaning any repeated back and forth or side to side movement

Antonyms

halt

93 2.3

A stop in movement or activity

stillness

35 3.5

A time of complete quiet and no movement that feels calm

Idioms

in full swing

23 3.5

At the peak of activity when many people are active and working

to swing for the fences

Informal

7 7.3

Try something risky to get a big reward

swing and a miss

Informal

5 7.0

An attempt that fails to get the result you wanted

in the swing of things

3 6.8

Being comfortable and taking part easily in an activity

back into the swing of things

Informal

3 5.3

To start doing your normal work and activities after a break

to swing both ways

NSFW

2 8.3

To be attracted to both men and women or to like different things

Compounds

mood swing

42 3.9

A sudden change from one emotion to another without warning

swing voter

23 4.2

A person who sometimes votes for different political parties and can decide the result of an election

swing set

16 1.0

A frame with seats hanging by chains or ropes for children to swing back and forth

swing shift

3 4.3

An evening work shift from late afternoon until around midnight

swing door

2 3.1

A door on hinges that opens in both directions

swing music

2 3.9

A lively style of jazz with a strong beat that big bands play

baseball swing

1 2.9

The movement a player makes with a bat to hit a thrown ball

swing set

1 3.7

A group of swing jazz songs played together to make people dance

How Far

swing

19 1.0

to sway

80 2.4

to rock

141 1.0

wobble

13 2.8

to quiver

50 4.5

Surface Forms

swing singular

swings plural

Etymology

Swing as a noun for a back-and-forth movement comes from the verb swing meaning to move. Picture a lamp or a pendulum that goes the same way again and again, and you will remember this meaning of regular movement.