Clues for the word "SWING"
We've had 85 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 106 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on January 13, 2026.
Definition of swing
- v. i. - To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
- v. i. - To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.
- v. i. - To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. See Swing, n., 3.
- n. - To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
- n. - To be hanged.
- v. t. - To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
- v. t. - To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.
- v. t. - To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
- n. - The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.
- n. - Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.
- n. - A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing; especially, an apparatus for recreation by swinging, commonly consisting of a rope, the two ends of which are attached overhead, as to the bough of a tree, a seat being placed in the loop at the bottom; also, any contrivance by which a similar motion is produced for amusement or exercise.
- n. - Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.
- n. - Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- n. - Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.
Referring Clues
- Playground equipment
- Big Band music
- See 57-Across
- Turn about
- Enjoy a playground fixture
- Playground fixture
- Big Band style
- Playground apparatus
- Goodman style
- Playground item
- Cut at the plate
- Big band sound
- Music genre
- Move to and fro
- Take a cut
- Benny Goodman's kingdom
- Duke's era
- Goodman's music
- Goodman genre
- Goodman's style
- Jazz style
- Benny Goodman's style
- Playground piece
- Playground favorite
- Benny Goodman's 'kingdom'
- Park fixture
- Word with dance or vote
- Jazz style of the '30s and '40s
- Important word for 17-, 23-, 36-, 46- and 57-Across
- Goodman's forte
- "A ___ and a miss!"
- Goodman's genre
- Moving playground seat
- *Decrease
- Folgers concern
- Benny Goodman's genre
- ___ vote
- Try to hit a baseball
- Oscillate
- Type of music that's provided in playground
- Item of playground equipment
- "Big Bad Voodoo Daddy" genre
- Move like a pendulum
- Have casual sex and drink around noon
- Influence head of subversive faction
- 17, something a child might 12
- Move from side to side
- Broadcasting but not round 1
- Music to amuse the children?
- Sometimes boys win, girls lose - or it can go the other way
- 1930s' big band dance music - playground feature
- Something to do at home
- Type of big-band jazz
- Fix drink around the North
- 12 and 11's second side on the clock?(5,4)
- Sweeping blow or stroke
- Oscillate - jazz style
- Type of music from the South side
- Some campaigns win great change
- Big band music on second side
- Round off broadcasting big-band style?
- Make music, including Western music
- Hanging seat on a playground
- Women, entering to perform main vocal part, avoid work
- Music suitable for the children's playground?
- Goodman specialty
- Fluctuation
- Style of jazz
- Golfer's club movement
- Golf lesson topic
- Some big band music
- Benny Goodman’s music
- Play golf? I'll be hanged if I will!
- Practise golf in the children's playground
- Playground seat
- Sway
- Dance style for Norma Miller
- Afford, casually
- Music to amuse the children?
- With 63-Down, period following the Jazz Age
- Dangle
- Brian Setzer genre
- Benny Goodman's music
- Playground fixture where pushing is encouraged
- Attempt to hit a baseball
Last Seen In
- LA Times - January 13, 2026
- Daily Quick - December 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 29, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 13, 2025
- LA Times - January 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 24, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 18, 2024
- USA Today - August 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 24, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 24, 2024
- LA Times - February 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 22, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 09, 2023
- LA Times - November 29, 2023
- New York Times - October 05, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 12, 2023
- Daily Quick - June 24, 2022
- New York Times - March 06, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - January 30, 2018
- Guardian Quick - January 09, 2018
- Netword - January 07, 2018
- Daily Quick - December 09, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - December 07, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - August 24, 2017
- Mirror Quick - August 05, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 06, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 19, 2017
- And in 76 more crossword puzzles...