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swing

swing - verb

To move rhythmically back and forth suspended or as if suspended from above: oscillate, sway. See move. repetition.
To fasten or be fastened at one point with no support from below: dangle, depend, hang, sling, suspend. See hang.
To change the direction or course of: avert, deflect, deviate, divert, pivot, shift, turn, veer. See change.
To turn or cause to turn in place, as on a hinge or fixed point, tracing an arclike path: pivot, wheel. See move.
To change one's attitudes or policies, for example: vacillate, waver. See change. decide.
To execute by suspending by the neck: gibbet, hang. Informal string up. See help.
To bring about and carry to a successful conclusion: bring off, carry out, carry through, effect, effectuate, execute, put through. See do.

An area within which something or someone exists, acts, or has influence or power: ambit, compass, extension, extent, orbit, purview, range, reach, realm, scope, sphere, sweep. See territory.
The patterned, recurring alternation of contrasting elements, such as stressed and unstressed notes in music: beat, cadence, cadency, measure, meter, rhythm. See repetition.