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swinger

swinger

13 9.0
A person who has sex with different partners instead of staying with only one
  • noun
  • /ˈswɪŋər/
  • NSFW
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  • The couple attended workshops to better understand the lifestyle of being swingers.
  • swingers' club
  • swingers' party
  • free swingers

I found out that my grandparents are swingers.

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Examples

  • We are both swingers, you see?

  • I love the article about the swinger parties.

  • Speaking of, we have a Christmas swingers party going on tonight.

  • We are swingers, and we're very safe in our practice, so, we like to encourage that.

  • Let's say I'm, I'm a swinger and I want to sleep with my neighbor's wife.

  • I'm talkin' that me and Dot are swingers.

  • When swingers do develop lasting, loving friendships with their swing partners, I would say that what they’re doing is indistinguishable from polyamory.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Many couples join a community of swingers to explore their sexuality with others.

  • At the festival, they met several swingers who shared their experiences of non-monogamous relationships.

Synonyms

player
vsswinger
  • Offensive
78 7.5

A person who has many romantic partners and avoids serious relationships

is a consensual lifestyle choice rejecting monogamy rather than casual pursuit
swapper
vsswinger
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A person who exchanges sexual partners with other couples

is a broad lifestyle of freely having multiple partners beyond partner exchange

Compounds

A person who starts and encourages dancing at parties

Surface Forms

swinger singular
swingers plural

Morphology

swinger = swing (opaque) = swing + er

Although formed from 'swing' + '-er', the sexual/lifestyle sense is idiomatic and cannot be predicted from the physical meaning of 'swing' by an average learner.

Etymology

Swinger is also used for a person in a 'swinging' lifestyle; a helpful way to remember this is to think of the verb swing as 'to move between', so a swinger is someone who moves between sexual partners by choice.