Swing

Definition: Swing

Swing

Noun

1. 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".

2. Mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth.

3. A sweeping blow or stroke; "he took a wild swing at my head".

4. Changing location by moving back and forth.

5. A style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz.

6. A jaunty rhythm in music.

7. The act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it.

8. In baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball; "he took a vicious cut at the ball".

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

Verb

1. Move in a curve; "He swung his left fist".

2. Move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner; "He swung back".

3. Change direction with a swinging motion; turn; "swing back"; "swing forward".

4. Influence decisively; "This action swung many votes over to his side".

5. Make a big sweeping gesture or movement.

6. Hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling".

7. Hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement; "The soccer player began to swing at the referee".

8. Change drastically "his mood swings"; "the market is swinging up and down".

9. Live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style; "The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely".

10. : be a social swinger; socialize a lot.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "swing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Post & Telecom

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Swing

Activity

Astir, stirring; agoing, afoot; on foot; in full swing; eventful; on the alert; (vigilant).

Agency

Noun: agency, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play; interworking, interaction; procurement.

Amusement

Park, plaisance; national park, national forest, state park, county park, city park, vest-pocket park, public park (public) a; arbor; garden; (horticulture); pleasure ground, playground, cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground; tennis court, racket court; bowling alley, green alley; croquet lawn, rink, glaciarum, skating rink; roundabout, merry-go-round; swing; montagne Russe.

Evolution

Wave, vibratiuncle, swing, beat, shake, wag, seesaw, dance, lurch, dodge; logan, loggan, rocking-stone, vibroscope.

Verb: oscillate; vibrate, librate; alternate, undulate, wave; rock, swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play; wamble, wabble; dangle, swag.

Facility

Leave a hole to creep out of, leave a loophole, leave the matter open; give the reins to, give full play, give full swing; make way for; open the door to, open the way, prepare the ground, smooth the ground, clear the ground, open the way, open the path, open the road; pave the way, bridge over; permit.

Freedom

Scope, range, play; free play, full play, free scope, full scope; free stage and no favor; swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth; Liberty Hall.

In full swing; uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled.

Laxity

Go beyond the length of one's tether; have one's swing, have one's fling; act without instructions, act without authority, act outside of one's authority; act on one's own responsibility, usurp authority.

Pendency

Verb: be pendent; Adjective: hang, depend, swing, dangle; swag; daggle, flap, trail, flow; beetle.

Punishment

Be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty; be hanged; come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served; be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning; face the firing squad.

Space

Noun: space, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace; room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread.

Strength

Unweakened, unallayed, unwithered, unshaken, unworn, unexhausted; in full force, in full swing; in the plenitude of power.

Success

Adjective: succeeding; Verb: successful; prosperous; triumphant; flushed with success, crowned with success; victorious, on top; set up; in the ascendant; unbeaten; (see beat; Verb:); well-spent; felicitous, effective, in full swing.

Crosswords: Swing

French (stomp, swing, swipe), German (jive, swing), Italian (swing), Romanian (swing), Spanish (jive), Swedish (swing).

Swing away Merrill, swing away (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

You want to help me swing it (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland)

I got me a ranch house out in Sausalito, 25 acres, a couple of pigs, sex swing in the basement, this weird Vietnamese guy who just kind of hangs out - you know, the American Dream (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen)

To swing or not to swing (George of the Jungle; writing credit: Jay Ward; Dana Olsen)

Inside each and every one of us is our one, true authentic swing. Something we was born with (The Legend of Bagger Vance; writing credit: Jeremy Leven)

Swing, swing, swing from the tangles of, (Swing Swing; performing artist: ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS)

with the Sultans of Swing (Sultans Of Swing; performing artist: Dire Straits)

Now I'm back in the ring to take another swing (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC)

With your kitty in the middle of the swing ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Watch this sweet chariot swing low (Fantastic Voyage; performing artist: Coolio)

Man on a Swing (1974)

Korkusuz Kaptan Swing (1971)

Swing Ding Amigo (1966)

Fröken! Swing it (1956)

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)

Would You Like To Swing On A Star (performing artist: Maria Muldaur)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Master Swing Trader: Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities (reference)

• Slither, Swoop, Swing (Picture Puffins) (reference)

• Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible: Master the Finesse Swing and Lower Your Score (Pelz, Dave. Dave Pelz Scoring Game Series, 1.) (reference)

• Swing 'n Sway Big Band-5 Cassettes (reference)

• Two Moves to Better Golf!: All Handicaps, Scientific, Comprehensive, One Basic Swing for All Shots, More Distance, Better Accuracy, Guaranteed Resul (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Swing Journal (reference)

• Western Swing Journal (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Benny Goodman - Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing (reference)

• Classic Jazz Drummers: Swing and Beyond-DVD (reference)

• Swing Kids (reference)

• Swing Time (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• More Sounds of the Great Swing Bands (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• ViewSonic Wall Mount For 15IN LCD Vp150 Swing Arm (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Panasonic EV297W Rechargeable Swing Roller Massager (reference)

• JET 708110K Swing Arm Sliding Table (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured are two young sisters playing on a swing. It is an outdoor summer, sunny setting. In the background a large home may be seen and a farm style setting. Hese are two members of a large Mormon family. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Hold a model of the battle cruisers (CC-1 class) then under construction, 8 March 1922. In the foreground is a model of an aircraft carrier design converted from the battle cruiser hull. This photo illustrates the genesis of the Lexington (CV-2) class aircraft carrier design. Standing in the background are (from left to right): Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, USN, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics; Congressman Frederick C. Hicks, of New York; Congressman Clark Burdick, of Rhode Island; and Congressman Philip D. Swing, of California. Photographed at the Navy Department by Harris & Ewing. Credit: NAVY.

Artist painting girl in swing. Credit: Library of Congress.

President Calvin Coolidge standing with box of oranges and California Representative Phil D. Swing, who presented the oranges, which won the diamond medal at the recent National Orange Show at San Bernardino. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pendulum or oscillating clock mechanisms, showing escapement mechanism, curved metal strips to check swing of pendulum, and clock with pendulum and weights. Credit: Library of Congress.

Broadway Landing, Va. Tripod artillery swing by the Appomattox. Credit: Library of Congress.

Luna Park, circle swing, Coney Island, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mayetta, Kansas. Porch swing up for the winter. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Airplanes. A swing shift worker at a large Western aircraft plant eats his lunch on the assembly line floor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Arnold Genthe and two women friends seated on a swing on the porch of his bungalow in Long Beach, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It was with great astonishment, and with a strange, inexplicable dread, that as he looked, he saw this bell begin to swing.

They swung stoutly in the great swing, attached to the two chestnut trees, celebrated by the Abbe de Bernis

He would never swing the thurible before the tabernacle as priest

Casy dodged down into the swing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The user may feel several different emotions at once or swing rapidly from one emotion to another. (references)

Economic History

Guatemala

For day shift workers the standard, six-day work week is 44 hours; for night shift workers it is 36 hours; for swing shift workers it is 42 hours. (references)

Guinea

The referendum has been scheduled for November 11, and the Government of Guinea and PUP activities are in full swing to ensure the desired result of another term for Conté. (references)

Human Rights

Zambia

Ngulube was beaten, pinched with pliers, and suspended with her hands and feet bound from what is locally known as "kampelwa" (the swing). (references)

Political Economy

Finland

The party has cooperated with both socialist and non-socialist governments in the past, using its swing vote to protect the interests of the Swedish speaking community. (references)

Ireland

However, current public opinion polls indicate that sustained economic growth, as well as positive developments in the Northern Ireland peace process and the government's competent handling of the foot and mouth crisis all swing in the Ahern government's favor. (references)

Political Rights

Costa Rica

They account for about 1 percent of the population, and their approximately 20,000 votes constitute an important swing vote in national elections. (references)

Trade

Qatar

The quota relates to the following categories: 347/348 (men, women and children's cotton trousers), 341/641 (ladies and girls' shirts and blouses), and 340/640 (men, boys and children's shirts) and has room for up to 7 percent of swing from one category to another and carryover to next year. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "swing": alternating swing of the pendulum ♦ amplitude of a swing ♦ Archimedes Wave Swing ♦ baseball swing ♦ be in full swing ♦ be in the swing ♦ bird swing ♦ disk of a swing check valve ♦ free swing ♦ Full swing ♦ give full swing to ♦ go with a swing ♦ go with swing ♦ in full swing ♦ not room to swing a cat ♦ swing a child ♦ swing about ♦ swing across ♦ swing arm ♦ swing around ♦ swing back ♦ swing bar ♦ swing basket ♦ swing beam ♦ swing boat ♦ swing bridge ♦ swing by ♦ swing credit ♦ swing door ♦ swing gently ♦ swing in ♦ swing it! ♦ swing joint ♦ swing music ♦ swing net ♦ swing one's arms ♦ swing oneself ♦ swing oneself up ♦ swing open ♦ swing out ♦ swing over ♦ swing plough ♦ swing plow ♦ swing round ♦ swing saw ♦ swing seat ♦ swing shift ♦ swing shut ♦ swing smth. about ♦ swing the deal ♦ swing the lead ♦ swing to ♦ swing up ♦ swing voter ♦ swing wheel ♦ swing wing ♦ take a swing ♦ the King of Swing ♦ To swing a door ♦ To swing round the circle. Additional references.

Beginning with "swing": swing-arounds, swing-away, swing-beat, swing-bell, swing-boats, swing-bridge, swing-chains, swing-door, swing-doors, swing-like, swing-mirror, swing-ometer, swing-out, swing-plane, swing-plough, swing-posts, swing-seat, swing-threw, swing-tip, swing-tipping, Swing-to-the-right, swing-type, swing-weight, swing-weights, swing-wheel, swing-wing.

Ending with "swing": away-swing, back-swing, boat-swing, body-swing, down-swing, full-swing, half-swing, jazz-swing, mid-swing, mood-swing, out-swing, over-swing, pre-swing, sofa-swing, up-swing.

Afrikaans

swaai (brandish, fling, wave, wave about). (various references)

Albanian

sulem (career, dash, go for, hotfoot, make for, rush, tear along, throw oneself, Wade), shtrirje (compass, dimension, elongation, expansion, extension, extent, lie, make believe, prolongation, proportions, rame, ramification, range, reach, scope, spread, spreading, stretch), zgjatje (duration, elongation, extending, extension, lasting, persistence, persistency, prolongation, protraction, protrusion, reach, spreading, stretch, tension), vërtit (flip, grind, span, spin, twist, wiggle), vërtis (flip, grind, span, spin, twist, wiggle), vërsulem (dart, dash, rush, rush in, sail in, shoot ahead), tundje (agitation, beating, flourish, jar, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jolting, misdoubt, nutation, oscillation, reel, rumble-tumble, shake, shaking, shimmy, sway, teeter, thrill, tossing, waddle, wag, waggle, wave, wiggle, wiggle-waggle), tundem (budge, dodder, jiggle, jumble, niddle-noddle, nod, nutate, oscillate, quake, reel, rock, stagger, sway, wabble, waddle, waggle, wamble, wobble), rrotulloj (crank, gyrate, revolve, rotate, slue round, spin, swivel, traverse, twist, whirl), ritëm (cadence, cadency, eurhythmics, number, pace, pitch, rate, rhythm, tempo, velocity), lëkundje (backlash, dancing, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, jarring, jolting, nutation, oscillation, pitch, quake, reel, rolling, shake, shaking, shilly shally, shimmy, stagger, sway, swinging, teeter, thrill, tossing, tremor, vacillation, vibrancy, vibration, wabble, wavering, wobble), lëkundem (dangle, falter, halt, hang, hesitate, jolt, jumble, nod, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, reel, rock, shake, shift, stagger, sway, totter, vacillate, vibrate, wabble, wallow, wamble, waver, wobble), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring), hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow), eci me hap të zhdërvjellët. (various references)

Arabic 

‏علق (annotate, comment, commentate, dangle, gloss, hang, hang up, hinge, pin out, rest, shelve, sling, stop, string up, suspend), ‏رقصة السوين, ‏أرجحة, ‏أرجوحة (glider, swings, trapeze), ‏أثر على (impinge), ‏أعدم (be executed, despatch, dispatch, execute, guillotine, hang out, put to death, shoot, string up), ‏إنتقال تدريجيي, ‏إنحرف (astrict, deflect, depart, deviate, deviate from, diverge, divert, drift, incline, jibe, jump, nose, pervert, sidetrack, skew, slew, slue, squint, stray, swerve, turn, veer), ‏إنقلب (be inverted, capsize, change over, overturn, recoil, tip over, topple, toss, turn over, turn turtle, upset), ‏إنقلق, ‏إهتز (balance, jerk, pounce, quake, quiver, rock, shake, shiver, shook, shudder, thrill, throb, toss, tremble, vibrate, wag, waggle), ‏دار (circle, come round, dwelling, go, gyrate, hand round, home, house, operate, orb, orbit, pan, parlor, parlour, residence, revolve, rotate, round, screw, spin, spun, swing round, swirl, swivel, turn over, twiddle, twirl, up and about, wheel, whirl, wind), ‏جولة (circuit, cruise, patrol, ramble, ride, round, run, tour, trek, turn), ‏كان منتظم الإيقاع, ‏سدد ضربة إلى, ‏تدلى (bag, dangle, droop, fall, flag, flow, loll, lop, sag, suspend), ‏تأرجح (fluctuate, fluctuation, hover, overbalance, pitch, rock, rocking, seesaw, sway, teeter, vacillate, vacillation), ‏تغير (alter, alteration, change, convert, metamorphose, modify, mutate, mutation, range, set of exchange, shift, shift up, turn, variation, vary, vicissitude), ‏تغير مفاجئ (revulsion), ‏تقلب (alteration, change, fickleness, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, flux, inconsistency, inconstancy, levity, oscillate, oscillation, toss, tumble, turn, variation, versatility, vicissitude, welter), ‏تقلبات (reversal, vicissitudes), ‏تمايل (bob, flexibility, lopsided, lurch, nod, reel, roll, stagger, sway, teeter, titubation, waver, weave, wobble), ‏وفق في إنجاز عمل, ‏لكمة (belt, chap, jab, knocking, punch, sock, swipe, uppercut, wallop), ‏هز (agitate, bob, concuss, convulse, jolt, rattle, ring, rock, shake, shock, stir, twitter, vibrate, wag, waggle), ‏إيقاع مطرد بالشعر. (various references)

Basque

zapu (see-saw). (various references)

Bulgarian 

люлка (cradle, nurse), полюлявам се (rock, swag, sway), завъртане (revolution, rotation, round, twirl, wind), завивам (blanket, tuck, turn, turn down, turn off, wrap), замах (dash, panache, snap, swish, swoop, verve), залюляване, жив ритъм, мятам (cast, drive, fling, launch, pitch, put on, sell, send, shaft, shoot, sling, slip over, spoof, throw, toss, tumble about), люшкам (reel, roll, sway), обиколка (ambit, circuit, girth, leg, round, round trip, roundabout, tour, touring, turn, walk about), люлея се на люлка, люлея се (nutate, oscillate, rock, seesaw, sway, teeter, toss, undulate, vacillate, vibrate), люлея (flap, rock, shake, sway), люлеене (cradling, oscillation, rock, seesaw, sway, vacillation, vibration), борсови колебания, провесвам (dangle, hang, loll, sling, suspend), амплитуда на люлеене, клатене (oscillation, rock, seesaw, shake, shaking), свивам (bend, constrict, contract, convulse, cop, double, double up, draw, knap, knit, knit together, knot, neck, pinch, pucker, roll, screw, screw up, set, shorten, snitch, turn, turn down, twist, wad, warp, work), размахвам (brandish, flap, flourish, shoot out, switch, wave, whisk, wigwag), ритмично походка, ритмично движение, ход (action, bat, course, current, foot, gait, going, lapse, motion, move, movement, operation, pace, passage, passing, play, ploy, process, race, rate, run, running, stream, tenor, tide, track, train, tread, twist, walk, way), турне (tour), марширувам (parade), клатушкам (joggle), суинг (mainstream), въртя (manage, move, revolve, roll, roll about, rotate, spin, sway, switch, swivel, toss about, trifle, turn, twiddle, wag, wheel about, wiggle, wind), вися (cool one's heels, dangle, hang, hang down, hang over, impend, loll, sag, swag), отклонявам се (break, depart, deviate, digress, dissent, diverge, dodge, oblique, part, run off, stray, swerve, take off, turn aside, turn off, wander), обсег (ambit, amplitude, area, coverage, extent, field, incidence, length, orb, purview, radius, range, reach, scope, shot, spread), обръщам се бързо (spin around), обесвам (be hanged, gibbet, halter, scrag, string up, suspend, turn off), клатушкам се (dodder, joggle, niddle-noddle, seesaw, stagger, wamble, wobble). (various references)

Chinese 

擺動 (sway), 摇摆 (Pendulous, stagger, Staggered, staggering, Swayed, swaying, swinging, Swung, Wag, Wagged, Wagging, Waver, Wavered, Wavering, wiggling). (various references)

Czech

podnìt (impulse, incentive, initiative, stimulus, suggestion), houpání (dangling, roll, sway, wabble, wobble), houpaèka (seesaw), houpat se (dangle, rock, wabble, wobble), kývání (vibration), kývat se (nod, pendulate, sway, wabble, waggle, wiggle, wobble), švihání (swish), otáèet (turn, twist, whirl round), vzlet (ascent, take off, takeoff), rozkývat, rozkmit, rozmach (development, expansion, sweep, upswing, upturn), rytmus (cadency, lilt, rhythm), toèení (spin, turning, twist, wrench), toèit (shoot, spill, spin, turn, twiddle, twine, twirl, twist, whirl, wind), kráèet houpavì. (various references)

Danish

svinge (brandish, fling, sway, wave, wave about). (various references)

Dutch

doen schommelen (rock), balanceren (balance, poise, rock). (various references)

Esperanto

svingpendi, svingiĝi (sway), svingi (brandish, fling, wave, wave about), balanci (rock). (various references)

Faeroese

sveiggja (hesitate, rock, waver), veittra (brandish, fling, wave, wave about), vagga (lull, rock), reiggja (brandish, fling, rock, wave, wave about). (various references)

Farsi 

نوسان (Lurch, Pendulum, Sway, Undulation, Vibration), نوعی رقص واهنگ ان , چرخیدن (Pivot, Reel, Revolve, Rollup, Rotate, Trill, Troll, Trundle, Turquoise, Twirl, Wheel, Whirl, Windmill, Wry), تاب خوردن (Oscillate, Swab, Sway), تاب (Glow, Patience, Sway, Twist), اهتزاز (Sway, Vibration), اونگان شدن یاکردن , اونگ (Pendulum). (various references)

Finnish

keinuttaa (rock), heiluttaa (brandish, fling, rock, sway, wag, wave, wave about, whisk). (various references)

French

balancer, brandir, balançoire (bird swing). (various references)

German

schwingen (brandish, fling, flourish, linger, oscillate, pulsate, sway, swung, to oscillate, vibrate, wave, wave about, whisk, wield), schaukeln (bounce, dandle, jog along, pitch and toss, rock, sway, swings, swung, teeter, toss about), schaukel. (various references)

Greek 

κούνια (cradle, crib, hammock, sling), κούνημα (shimmy), κουνώ (cradle, dangle, rock, shake, shaken, shook, sway). (various references)

Hebrew 

להתנענע (shake, sway), להתנדנד (fluctuate, oscillate, rock, seesaw, sway, teeter), להשפיע (bias, carry weight, influence, motivate, predetermine), להצליח (get ahead, get along, get through, make good, make the grade, manage, prosper, pull through, succeed, thrive, win, win out), לטלטל (fling about, hurl, move, shake, stagger, throw, toss, yank), לנופף (brandish, flourish, wave), לנפנף (flag, flap, wave), תפנית (flip-flop, swerve, turn, turnabout), תנופה (amplitude, drive, energy, impetus, leverage, lifting up, momentum, sweep, waving), הנף, טפיפה (mincing walk), ניד (mobile, movable, moveable, movement, portable, quiver), נענוע (jiggle, movement, nodding, rocking, shake), נדנדה (seesaw, swings). (various references)

Hungarian

szving, hinta, hintázás (see-saw, sway), lendület (buoyancy, dash, dynamism, elan, get-up, impetus, lilt, momentum, movement, pathos, pep, run, sally, snap, zest, zip), elfordulás (roll, slew, slue), eltolódás (dislocation, shift), fordulás (facing, slew, slue, turn round, turning, volt), hajó körmozgása horgony körül, himbálódzás (roll, slew, slue), elfordíthatóság, kilengés nagysága, szvingtánc, lendületvétel, lengő ütés, lengés (flutter, oscillation, scalloping, swag, sway, swinging, vibration, wave), lengéstágasság, mozgási tér (latitude), ritmus (beat, cadence, lilt, rhythm), szabad forgás, kilengés (amplitude, deflection, deflexion, excursion, sway). (various references)

Indonesian

menggelanting, mengayunkan, buaian (boast, gab, hammock), buai, berbuai. (various references)

Italian

altalena (seesaw). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鞦韆 , ぶどう酒 (aimlessly, be idle, dangle heavily, idly, Japanese beech tree, lazily, loaf, loiter, soft and flabby, stroll idly, sway to and fro, to dangle, to hang around, to linger, to stroll about, to swing, wine), スイッチ貿易 (bathers, swift ball, swimmer, swimming club, swimming school, swimming trunks, swing door, swing out, swinger, swinger party, swinging, switch trade, swivel), スイング戦略 (sway, Sweden, Sweden relay, sweep, swimming, swing strategy, switch), やり方が渋い (Aah!, affluence, Ah!, at ease, calm, Dear me!, exclamation of relief or disappointment, flicker, large thing swaying, mildly, mischievous, naughty, Oh dear!, Oh!, reserve, rock, roll, rolling from side to side, room, shake, slow swaying, slowly, softly, stingy ways, swinging, Thank God!, time, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobbling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぶらぶら (aimlessly, be idle, dangle heavily, idly, lazily, loaf, loiter, stroll idly, sway to and fro), ぶらんこ, スイング , スウィング , ゆらゆら (flicker, rock, roll, rolling from side to side, shake, slow swaying, swinging, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobbling). (various references)

Korean 

그네. (various references)

Manx

lunjean (wobble), leaystey (balancing, bank, boggle, brandish, dangle, fluctuate, fluctuating, heel, hesitate, hesitating, hesitation, loll, lolling, oscillate, oscillation, reel, reeling, rock, rocking, roll, see-saw, sway, swaying, swerve, swing back, swinging, vacillate, vacillating, vacillation, waddle; wavering, waddling; fluctuation, wave, wave of hand, waver, waver of fixture), leayst-chiaull, leaystane, dooney (barricade, block, button up, cadence, clench, closure, filling, imprisonment, lacing up, occlude, occlusion, secure, shut, shut down, stop up), croghey (bank on, climb, cling, depend, drape, fly, hang, hinge, hinge as story, hoist, jack up, lean on, loft, pendant, pitch, sheer, spring, suspension), cassey (change, curl, distort, flick, flounce, involve, pervert, screw, spin, squirm, swirl, tangle, turn, turn over, twist, warp, whip-round, wrench, wring), builley geaylin. (various references)

Occitan

balançadoira (see-saw). (various references)

Pig Latin

ingsway.(various references)

Portuguese

balanço (audit, rocking, sway, teeter, vacillation, waggle, weighing machine), balançar (balance, cantillate, consider, dandle, lurch, rock, send, shake, sway, teeter, wabble, weigh, wobble). (various references)

Romanian

balansa (balance, make up, rock, sway). (various references)

Romany

kooninàv (to swing). (various references)

Russian 

раскачать (shake), размах (range, reach, span, spread, sweep), ритм (cadence, cadency, lilt, metre, pulse, rhythm, rythm, tempo), колебаться (be torn between, dilly dally, dither, fluctuate, fluctuating, go seesaw, hand back, hang in the balance, hesitate, hover, nutate, oscillate, oscillated, pendulate, seesaw, shilly shally, shuttling, stumble at, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wavered, whiffle, whiffled), колебать (shake), колебание (backing and filling, demur, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, irresolution, jarring, oscillation, reel, teeter, vacillation, wave), качнуть (rock, shake), качели (seesaw, swing set), качаться перепад, качаться (dangle, nutate, pendulate, rocked, seesawed, sway, vacillate, vibrate, wave), качать (dandle, rock, sway, swung), качание (sway, swinging, teeter, weaving, wobble), махать (brandish, wag, wave, waved, waving), подвешивать (suspend), идти мерным шагом. (various references)

Scottish

luaisg (move, rock, shake, toss, wave). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

njihati se (nutate, pendulate, wag), klatiti se (pendulate, wobble), lelujati (sway, wave), ljuljaška, ljuljati (cradle, rock, seesaw), ljuljati se (bob, seesaw), mahati (brandish, flourish, wag, wave), izdejstvovati (finagle, obtain, put across, spring), njihati (hunt, oscillate, sway, waggle), zavrteti (begin to spin round, spin), osciliranje, oscilovanje, raskalašno živeti, ritam (cadence, cadency, rhythm), vitlati (brandish, cavort, swirl), zamah (elan, stroke, sweep, whisk, zest), njihanje (nutation, oscillation, sway, swinging, wag, waggle). (various references)

Spanish

balancear (balance, poise, rock, sway, weigh), columpio (bird cage, bird swing, birdcage, chicken roost, child's swing, see-saw), balancearse (balance, Bob, roll about, sway, teeter, toss, toss about, toss around, toss up). (various references)

Swedish

svinga (brandish, fling, flourish, wave, wave about, wield), svängning (oscillation, rotation, sway, turn, vacillation), svänga (brandish, camber, curve, flourish, oscillate, pivot, sway, vacillate, veer, wheel, whirl), gunga (dandle, nutate, rock, seasaw, toss), dingla (dangle). (various references)

Thai

แกว่ง, แขวน (suspend), ชิงช้า, การแกว่ง, การเหวี่ยงหมัด, การตีลูกบอล, หมุนรอบ. (various references)

Turkish

sallanma (hurry up, jolt, look alive, look snappy, lurch, make it snappy, oscillation, rocking, shaking, sway, swinging, taking, vacillation, wag, wagging, wobble, wriggle), salıncak, salınma, salınmak (balance, oscillate, roll, sweep), sallama (agitation, flourish, jog, rocking, shake, shaking, swinging, wag, wagging, waving), sallandırmak (oscillate), salınım (fade out, oscillation, swinging, undulation), sallanmak (be slung from, bear away, dawdle, dilly dally, dodder, flap, flirt, hang about, hang around, hang down, hang on, hover, keep oneself close, loiter, lurch, oscillate, quake, rock, shake, sway, take a swing, teeter, toss, vibrate, waggle, wave, waver, wobble), sapma (bias, declension, declination, deflection, deflexion, departure, detour, deviation, divagation, drift, excursion, inequality, lapse, obliquene