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Definition of Swinging
1. Adjective. Characterized by a buoyant rhythm. "A tripping singing measure"
Similar to: Rhythmic, Rhythmical
Derivative terms: Swing, Swing
2. Noun. Changing location by moving back and forth.
Generic synonyms: Motion, Move, Movement
Derivative terms: Swing, Swing, Swing, Vacillate
Definition of Swinging
1. Noun. An activity where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of swing) ¹
3. Adjective. (informal) Fine, good, successful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swinging
1. lively and hip [adj -INGEST] / the practice of swapping sex partners [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swinging
Literary usage of Swinging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"Value of swinging Tail-pieces.—In addition to the opinions cited at p. ...
102), considers that the swinging of the mirror-bar on the optical centre of the ..."
2. The Baptist Missionary Magazine by Executive Committee, Baptist General Convention, American Baptist Missionary Union, Board of Managers (1847)
"He kept up the swinging motion by pulling at a small cord tied to a limb near
the bodv of the tree. This man did not seem stupified, ns one would suppose he ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"applied to the swinging bar to which traces are fastened when a horse draws a coach.
Corruptly called single-tree, whence the term double-tree has arisen, ..."
4. Folio (1884)
"swinging, swinging, my soul is winging Over yon tree-tops her boundless way :
swinging, swinging, my life I am flinging Out, far out through the golden day. ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"Other y have recesses to accommodate a case of drawers or ire closets and cupboards
occur, they are finished with instead of swinging-doors. ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"The combination, with a railway car and its platform, having an end guard-rail,
by which a side entrance thereto is provided, of a swinging gate for closing ..."
7. Gymnastics: A Text-book of the German-American System of Gymnastics by William Albin Stecher (1896)
"8 swinging and alternately exercising two of the foregoing exercises when ...
9 swinging and crossing right leg quickly in front of left when going upward. ..."
8. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"Value of swinging Tail-pieces.—In addition to the opinions cited at p. ...
102), considers that the swinging of the mirror-bar on the optical centre of the ..."
9. The Baptist Missionary Magazine by Executive Committee, Baptist General Convention, American Baptist Missionary Union, Board of Managers (1847)
"He kept up the swinging motion by pulling at a small cord tied to a limb near
the bodv of the tree. This man did not seem stupified, ns one would suppose he ..."
10. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"applied to the swinging bar to which traces are fastened when a horse draws a coach.
Corruptly called single-tree, whence the term double-tree has arisen, ..."
11. Folio (1884)
"swinging, swinging, my soul is winging Over yon tree-tops her boundless way :
swinging, swinging, my life I am flinging Out, far out through the golden day. ..."
12. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"Other y have recesses to accommodate a case of drawers or ire closets and cupboards
occur, they are finished with instead of swinging-doors. ..."
13. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"The combination, with a railway car and its platform, having an end guard-rail,
by which a side entrance thereto is provided, of a swinging gate for closing ..."
14. Gymnastics: A Text-book of the German-American System of Gymnastics by William Albin Stecher (1896)
"8 swinging and alternately exercising two of the foregoing exercises when ...
9 swinging and crossing right leg quickly in front of left when going upward. ..."
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