Meanings
- Proceeding fully, quickly, or completely; thoroughly begun and in progress.
We arrived an hour late and found the event already in full swing.
1 more example
The harvest is now in full swing in the Great Plains and efforts are being made to rush the grain from the fields to the country elevators and then to the large terminals, such as Kansas City, Houston, Galveston and New Orleans.
1964 June 16, “Surprise Strike Stops Traffic On 6 Railroads”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 3Synonyms: in full gear
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseProceeding fully, quickly, or completely; thoroughly begun and in progress.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbproceeding with full vigor
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 正全面展开, 全力进行中
- 正全面展开proceeding fully
- 全力进行中 (jìnxíng)proceeding fully
Czech v plném proudu
- v plném prouduproceeding fully
Finnish täydessä vauhdissa
- täydessä vauhdissaproceeding fully
French battre son plein
- battre son pleinproceeding fully
Italian in pieno svolgimento
- in pieno svolgimentoproceeding fully
Latvian pilnā sparā
- pilnā sparāproceeding fully
Polish w pełni, w pełnej krasie
- w pełniproceeding fully
- w pełnej krasieproceeding fully
Romanian în toi
- în toiproceeding fully
Russian в разгаре, на полную катушку
- в разгаре (v razgare)proceeding fully
- на полную катушку (na polnuju katušku)proceeding fully
Tamil முழுவீச்சில்
- முழுவீச்சில் (muḻuvīccil)proceeding fully
Cite this entry
in full swing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20full%20swing
“in full swing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20full%20swing. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “in full swing,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20full%20swing.
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