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Exact Match:

swing

changing location by moving back and forth

a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them

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; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz

a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity; "the party went with a swing"; "it took time to get into the swing of things"

alternate dramatically between high and low values; "his mood swings"; "the market is swinging up and down"

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; turn; "swing back"; "swing forward"

move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting; "He swung his left fist"; "swing a bat"

be a social swinger; socialize a lot

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"

Synonyms:

• Alexandrine,
• Ferris wheel,
• Long Melford,
• Zeitgeist,
• accent,
• accentuation,
• acid rock,
• act,
• acting,
• action,
• activism,
• activity,
• air space,
• alternate,
• amble,
• amphibrach,
• amphimacer,
• ample scope,
• anacrusis,
• anapest,
• animated,
• antispast,
• arsis,
• asking price,
• avant-garde jazz,
• avert,
• bacchius,
• back and fill,
• backhand,
• backhander,
• backstroke,
• bag,
• ballroom music,
• bang,
• barge,
• 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,
• blunder,
• bob,
• bobble,
• bolo punch,
• bonk,
• boogie-woogie,
• book value,
• bop,
• bowl along,
• brandish,
• bullish prices,
• bundle,
• cadence,
• cadency,
• caesura,
• call price,
• careen,
• career,
• carousel,
• carte blanche,
• cascade,
• catalexis,
• change,
• chase women,
• chloriamb,
• chloriambus,
• chop,
• 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 music,
• dance upon nothing,
• dances,
• dangle,
• dash,
• debauch,
• decline,
• deflect,
• depend,
• diaeresis,
• dig,
• dimeter,
• dint,
• dipody,
• direction,
• dispense,
• dispose,
• dissipate,
• divert,
• dochmiac,
• doing,
• drabble,
• drag,
• draggle,
• dramatico-musical,
• drape,
• drift,
• droop,
• drub,
• drubbing,
• drumming,
• ebb and flow,
• elbowroom,
• elegiac,
• elegiac couplet,
• elegiac pentameter,
• emphasis,
• employment,
• engineer,
• epitrite,
• exercise,
• face value,
• fall,
• falter,
• feint,
• feminine caesura,
• fetch about,
• field,
• fixed price,
• flail at,
• flail away at,
• flap,
• flapping,
• flash price,
• flaunt,
• float,
• flop,
• flounce,
• flounder,
• flourish,
• flourishing,
• flow,
• fluctuate,
• fluctuating,
• fluctuation,
• flurry,
• flutter,
• 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,
• groove,
• grovel,
• gyrate,
• gyre,
• hack it,
• halt,
• hang,
• hang down,
• hard rock,
• 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,
• lilt,
• limits,
• limp,
• line,
• lively,
• lock step,
• 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,
• 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,
• 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,
• 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,
• 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 in,
• suffer hanging,
• suite,
• suite of dances,
• swag,
• swagger,
• swat,
• sway,
• swaying,
• sweep,
• 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,
• 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,
• zigzag