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means To move back and forth or in a curve from a fixed point, or the seat suspended by ropes or chains that lets you do exactly that.
from From Old English 'swingan,' meaning to beat, strike, or flog — a word about violent motion, related to German 'schwingen,' to brandish or wave. The sense slowly softened from striking the air to moving freely through it, and by later centuries the gentle suspended seat we know had borrowed the name. The musical 'swing,' that lilting rhythmic lean, came much later, but it kept the same heart: the pull of something moving with momentum.
- physics
- pumping legs adds energy like a driven pendulum
- world record
- highest swing arc reached over 32 feet
- jazz era
- a whole genre named for its rhythmic feel
- baby effect
- gentle swinging soothes by mimicking womb motion
- weightless trick
- jumping off gives a brief moment of free fall
charleston — 1920s dance craze that defined the jazz age and caused moral panics in american cities
lindy hop — swing dance created in harlem in 1928, performed at savoy ballroom
big band era — 1930s-40s movement led by duke ellington, count basie, and benny goodman orchestras
jitterbug — energetic swing dance that became popular at american dance halls during world war ii