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    "Swing dance" was not commonly used to identify a group of dances until the latter half of the 20th century. Historically, the term swing referred to the...
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  • Swing bowling is a bowling technique in cricket, in which the ball is made to curve through the air. This is in the hope that the change in the ball's...
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  • To Swing or Not to Swing (subtitled Barney Kessel Volume 3) is an album by guitarist Barney Kessel released on the Contemporary label which was recorded...
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  • danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and when influential clarinettists were household names. This was the swing era...
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  • Electro swing, or swing house, is an electronic dance music genre that combines the influence of vintage or modern swing and jazz mixed with house and...
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    A swing bridge (or swing span bridge) is a movable bridge that can be rotated horizontally around a vertical axis. It has as its primary structural support...
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    The swing ride or chair swing ride (sometimes called a swing carousel, wave swinger, yo-yo, waver swinger, Chair-O-Planes, Dodo or swinger) is an amusement...
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  • versus swung In music, the term swing has two main uses. Colloquially, it is used to describe the propulsive quality or "feel" of a rhythm, especially...
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    programs. Swing was developed to provide a more sophisticated set of GUI components than the earlier Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT). Swing provides a...
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  • praise for playing that has a strong groove or drive. Musicians, who were also big-band leader of the swing, era include Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington...
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  • Single Swing (also called single-time swing) is a fast dance rhythm in the larger swing family of dances. Swing or Jive is danced to popular rock-and-roll...
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    pattern of many West Coast Swing figures. Alternatively the basic patterns in West Coast Swing are defined as: Push Break (or Sugar Push); Left Side Pass;...
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    A sex swing (also known as a sling) is a type of harness designed to allow sexual intercourse between one partner suspended by the swing and another who...
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  • Western swing, country jazz or smooth country is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the...
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    swing state (also known as battleground state, toss-up state, or purple state) is any state that could reasonably be won by either the Democratic or Republican...
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  • Eastern Swing, Jitterbug, American Swing, East Coast Lindy, Lindy (not to be confused with Lindy Hop), and Triple Swing (or Triple-step swing). Other...
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    Kettlebell swing (also known as Russian swing, double-arm swing or conventional kettlebell swing) is a basic ballistic exercise used to train the posterior...
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  • The swing revival, also called retro swing and neo-swing, was a renewed interest in swing music and Lindy Hop dance, beginning around 1989 and reaching...
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  • When You're Winning, Williams wanted to take another musical direction. Williams had been asked to guest on a swing or traditional-style version of the standard...
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    as the "King of Swing". His orchestra did well commercially. From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the...
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  • Look up Swing, swing, or swinging in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Swing or swinging may refer to: Swing (seat), a hanging seat that swings back and...
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  • Kenneth Branagh. The title refers to a youth subculture in Nazi Germany, in which teenagers embraced American and British swing music in defiance of the Nazi...
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  • Swing rueda is a swing dance in the round (wheel) that features someone calling Lindy Hop moves and the dancers moving in unison. It was adapted from salsa...
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  • Swing Shift is a 1984 American romantic drama directed by Jonathan Demme, and produced by and starring Goldie Hawn, with Kurt Russell. It also features...
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    A swing is a seat or platform, suspended from chains, ropes, or bars, on which one or more people can swing back and forth for enjoyment or relaxation...
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  • A tree swing cartoon or tire swing cartoon is a humorous graphical metaphor that purports to explain communication pitfalls in the division of labor in...
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  • Swing Vote is a 2008 American comedy-drama film about an entire U.S. presidential election determined by the vote of one man. It was directed by Joshua...
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  • Look up in full swing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Full Swing or In Full Swing may refer to; Full Swing (game show), a short-lived 1996 British...
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  • King of Swing or the Swing King may refer to: Count Basie (1904–1984), American jazz pianist, bandleader, organist, and composer King of Swing, a 1956...
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  • 2005 cited Terry Gould's research, which concluded that "couples swing in order to not cheat on their partners". When Stossel asked swinging couples whether...
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