swinging

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ

Noun

swinging (countable and uncountable, plural swingings)

1. The act or motion of that which swings.
   • 1973, Socialist Review (volume 8, page 331)

     Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism […]

2. An activity where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners.

Translations

sexual practice

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 交換配偶, 交换配偶 (jiāohuàn pèi'ǒu)

• Czech: grupensex m
• Finnish: parinvaihto
• French: échangisme (fr) m
• German: Swingen n

• Hungarian: svédszex, párcsere, swing (hu)
• Italian: scambismo m
• Japanese: スワッピング (suwappingu), スインギング (suingingu)
• Portuguese: swing (pt) m
• Russian: свинг (ru) m (sving), группово́й секс (ru) m (gruppovój sɛks)
• Spanish: intercambio de pareja m

Verb

swinging

1. present participle of swing

Adjective

swinging (comparative more swinging, superlative most swinging)

1. (informal) Fine, good, successful.

   The party was swinging.

2. Alternative form of swingeing
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     “It is an eating fever then,” says the landlady; “for he hath devoured two swinging buttered toasts this morning for breakfast.”