Swag vs. Swing — What's the Difference?

A curtain or piece of fabric fastened so as to hang in a drooping curve.

Move or cause to move back and forth or from side to side while suspended or on an axis

Money or goods taken by a thief or burglar

Move by grasping a support from below and leaping

Bold self-assurance of style or manner

Move or cause to move in a smooth, curving line

A traveller's or miner's bundle of personal belongings.

Shift or cause to shift from one opinion, mood, or state of affairs to another

Arrange in or decorate with a swag or swags of fabric

Play music with a flowing but vigorous rhythm

Travel with one's personal belongings in a bundle

(of an event, place, or way of life) be lively, exciting, or fashionable.

Hang heavily

Engage in group sex or swap sexual partners within a group, especially on a habitual basis.

An ornamental drapery or curtain draped in a curve between two points.

A seat suspended by ropes or chains, on which someone may sit and swing back and forth.

An ornamental festoon of flowers or fruit.

An act of swinging

A carving or plaster molding of such an ornament.

A discernible change in opinion, especially the amount by which votes or points scored change from one side to another

Promotional items, especially when given for free, considered as a group.

A style of jazz or dance music with a flowing but vigorous rhythm.

(Slang) Stolen property; loot.

A swift tour involving a number of stops, especially one undertaken as part of a political campaign.

(Australian) The pack or bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman.

(in musical theatre) an understudy, typically one who covers multiple roles in the chorus of a particular production.

(Slang) See schwag.

To move back and forth suspended or as if suspended from above.

Chiefly British To lurch or sway.

To hit at something with a sweeping motion of the arm

(Australian) To travel about with a pack or swag.

To move laterally or in a curve

(ambitransitive) To (cause to) sway.

To turn in place on or as if on a hinge or pivot.

(intransitive) To droop; to sag.

To move along with an easy, swaying gait

(transitive) To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.

To propel oneself from one place or position to another by grasping a fixed support

(transitive) To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.

To ride on a swing.

To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).

To shift from one attitude, interest, condition, or emotion to another; vacillate.

To transport stolen goods.

(Slang) To be put to death by hanging.

(window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.

To have a subtle, intuitively felt rhythm or sense of rhythm.

A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects.

To play with a subtle, intuitively felt sense of rhythm.

(slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.

To be lively, trendy, and exciting.

A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods.

To engage in promiscuous sex.

Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.

To exchange sex partners. Used especially of married couples.

Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise.

To have a sexual orientation

The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.

To cause to move back and forth, as on a swing.

A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.

To cause to move in a broad arc or curve

A large quantity (of something).

To cause to move with a sweeping motion

To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.

To lift and convey with a sweeping motion

To sink down by its weight; to sag.

To suspend so as to sway or turn freely

To tramp carrying a swag.

To suspend on hinges

A swaying, irregular motion.

To cause to turn on hinges

A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle.

To cause to shift from one attitude, position, opinion, or condition to another.

A tramping bushman's luggage, rolled up either in canvas or in a blanket so as to form a long bundle, and carried on the back or over the shoulder; - called also a bluey, or a drum.

To manage or arrange successfully

Valuable goods

To bring around to the desired result

Goods or money obtained illegally

(Music) To play (music) with a subtle, intuitively felt sense of rhythm.

A bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman

The act or an instance of swinging; movement back and forth or in one particular direction.

Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

The sweep or scope of something that swings

Walk as if unable to control one's movements;

A blow or stroke executed with a sweeping motion of the arm.

Sway heavily or unsteadily

The manner in which one swings something, such as a bat or golf club.

A shift from one attitude, position, or condition to another

Freedom of action

A swaying, graceful motion

A sweep back and forth

A course or tour that returns to the starting point

A seat suspended from above, as by ropes, on which one can ride back and forth for recreation.

The normal rhythm of life or pace of activities

A steady, vigorous rhythm or movement, as in verse.

A regular movement up or down, as in stock prices.

A type of popular dance music developed about 1935 and based on jazz but employing a larger band, less improvisation, and simpler harmonic and rhythmic patterns.

A ballroom dance performed to this music.

A subtle, intuitively felt rhythmic quality or sense of rhythm.

(Music) Relating to or performing swing

Determining an outcome; decisive

(intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.

(intransitive) To dance.

(intransitive) To ride on a swing.

(intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.

(intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.

To move sideways in its trajectory.

To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.

(intransitive) To fluctuate or change.

(transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.

(transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.

(transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.

To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.

To move one's arm in a punching motion.

(transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.

To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.

To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.

(nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.

The manner in which something is swung.

The sweep or compass of a swinging body.

A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.

A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.

A dance style.

(music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.

The amount of change towards or away from something.

(politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.

(cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.

Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.

In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.

A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.

(obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.

Influence or power of anything put in motion.

(boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.

To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.

To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open.

To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.

To be hanged.

To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.

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.

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.

The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum.

Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing.

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.

Influence of power of a body put in swaying motion.

Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.

Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.

A state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity;

Mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth

A sweeping blow or stroke;

Changing location by moving back and forth

A style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz

A jaunty rhythm in music

The act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it

In baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball;

A square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them

Move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting;

Move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner;

Change direction with a swinging motion; turn;

Influence decisively;

Make a big sweeping gesture or movement

Hang freely;

Hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement;

Alternate dramatically between high and low values;

Live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style;

Have a certain musical rhythm;

Be a social swinger; socialize a lot

Play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm

Engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends;