How to spell swing

hear itswing/swɪŋ/verbSounds

What it means: To move back and forth while hanging or sitting.

In a sentence: The girl loves to swing high at the playground.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as swng or swign.

Same family: swings, swinging, swung, backswing, follow-through. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Swing comes from an Old English verb meaning “to rush or fling oneself,” and over time it also came to describe the motion of moving back and forth. In sports like baseball and golf, the word focuses on that quick, forceful motion toward the ball.

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