Definitions
changing location by moving back and forth
Word origin
From Middle English swyngen, from Old English swingan, from Proto-West Germanic *swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swinganą (compare Low German swingen, German schwingen, Dutch zwingen, Swedish svinga), from Proto-Indo-European *swenk-, *sweng- (compare Scottish Gaelic seang (“thin”)). Related to swink.
Used in a sentence
“The plant swung in the breeze.”
“With one accord the tribe swung rapidly toward the frightened cries, and there found Terkoz holding an old female by the hair and beating her unmercifully with his great hands.”
“The children laughed as they swung.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Pendulum motion”5 letters
02“arc motion”5 letters
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