swinger

swing·er
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UK/ˈswɪŋə/US/ˈswɪŋəɹ/UK/ˈswɪnd͡ʒə/US/ˈswɪnd͡ʒəɹ/

noun

One who swings.

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Meanings

swinger1

nounswinger (plural swingers)

plural swingers

  1. One who swings.

    And now that swing appears on a certain playground in the dusk, still swinging without the swinger, who has disappeared[…]

    2009, Peter Handke, Krishna Winston, Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, page 438
  2. lifestyleA person who practices swinging (sex with different partners).
  3. A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick two runners to finish in any of the places in any order.
  4. A performer of swing music or whose style is influenced by swing.
  5. informalgovernmentA swing voter.

    Shorten went to Blacktown to try and summon the spirit of Gough Whitlam to persuade the swingers it was time for a change of government. Shorten said vote one Labor, for the future.

    2019 May 16, Katharine Murphy, “Campaign catchup 2019: close race sparks pre-election jitters”, in The Guardian
  6. hobbiesA passenger on a motorcycle's sidecar who athletically moves from one side to the other to alter the weight distribution.

swinger2

nounswinger (plural swingers)

plural swingers

  1. One who swinges.
  2. obsoleteslangAnything very large, forcible, or astonishing.

    Add ſugar, nutmeg and ginger, / VVith ſtore of ale too; / And thus ye muſt doe / To make the vvaſſaile a ſvvinger.

    1648, Robert Herrick, “Twelfe Night, or King and Queene”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 377

Swinger3

proper nounSwinger (plural Swingers)

plural Swingers

  1. A surname from German.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna person who engages freely in promiscuous sex

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Origin

Swinger · proper noun

  1. GermanSchwinger
  2. EnglishSwinger

Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Schwinger or Zwinger.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 交換配偶的人 /交换配偶的人
  • 交換配偶的人 /交换配偶的人 (jiāohuàn pèi'ǒu de rén)person who practices swinging
Finnish pintaliitäjä
  • pintaliitäjäperson who practices swinging
French échangiste
  • échangisteperson who practices swinging
German Swinger, Swingerin
  • Swingerperson who practices swinging
  • Swingerinperson who practices swinging
Italian scambista
  • scambistaperson who practices swinging
Japanese スインガー
  • スインガー (suingā)person who practices swinging
Russian сви́нгер
  • сви́нгер (svínger)person who practices swinging
Swedish swinger
  • swingerperson who practices swinging

Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

swinger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/swinger

MLA

“swinger.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/swinger. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “swinger,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/swinger.

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