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Princeton's WordNet

  1. swing, swinging, vacillationadjective

    changing location by moving back and forth

  2. lilting, swinging, swingy, trippingadjective

    characterized by a buoyant rhythm

    "an easy lilting stride"; "the flute broke into a light lilting air"; "a swinging pace"; "a graceful swingy walk"; "a tripping singing measure"

Wiktionary

  1. swingingnoun

    An activity where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners

  2. swingingadjective

    Fine, good, successful.

    The party was swinging.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Swingingadjective

    Great; huge. A low word.

    Etymology: from swinge.

    The countryman seeing the lion disarmed, with a swinging cudgel broke off the match. Roger L'Estrange.

    A good swinging sum of John’s readiest cash went towards building of Hocus’s countryhouse. Arbuthnot.

ChatGPT

  1. swinging

    Swinging generally refers to the act of moving back and forth or from side to side with a regular rhythm, pivoting from a fixed point. This term can be applied to objects, people, or even concepts and scenarios. For instance, in sports like baseball or golf, references to 'swinging' often describe the act of moving a bat or club. In music, it refers to a rhythmic style that has a flowing and syncopated rhythm. Furthermore, in a social context, 'swinging' can imply a certain lifestyle involving partner swapping.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Swinging

    of Swing

Wikidata

  1. Swinging

    Swinging or partner swapping is a non-monogamous behavior, in which singles or partners in a committed relationship engage in sexual activities with others as a recreational or social activity. Swinging can take place in a number of contexts, ranging from spontaneous sexual activity at informal gatherings of friends to planned regular social meetings to hooking up with like-minded people at a swingers' club. It can also involve Internet-based swinger social networking services online. The phenomenon of swinging, or at least its wider discussion and practice, is regarded by some as arising from the upsurge in sexual activity during the sexual revolution of the 1960s, made possible by the invention of the contraceptive pill and the emergence of treatments for many of the sexually transmitted diseases that were known at that time. The older term wife-swapping, once considered to be equivalent to "swinging," is criticized today as being androcentric where it is presumed that the partners are a married heterosexual couple and that it is the male who is in control of the sexual activities and also that it does not accurately describe the full range of sexual activities in which both singles or couples may take part.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Swinging in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Swinging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Swinging in a Sentence

  1. Yolanda Young:

    He was down but then he jumped up, like he was juiced up, and then he started swinging at the police and they were fighting him back. ... They shot him five times.

  2. Tom Cross:

    The (Senate) president, the speaker and the governor's office are all dug in, maybe this is like a boxing match where they are swinging pretty hard, but they're going to be worn out and then figure this out.

  3. John Meyer:

    It's a meaningful number in terms of swinging the market from oversupply to deficit, it could squeeze the short sellers.

  4. Webb Simpson:

    I just kind of had a talk with myself going back to seven tee thinking about all my bad shots this week have been just some poor thinking and not being really committed to what I decided to do, and I just said hey, if you stay fully committed the rest of the day, you're swinging great, you're putting well, you're going to make birdies — and that's what I did.

  5. Barack Obama:

    It's been a volatile few weeks around the world. There's been a lot of reports in the news, and stock markets swinging, and worries about China and about Europe.

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