swooping

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of swoop

plural swoopings

1. countableuncountableThe motion of something that swoops.

   I rarely dared to write there after dark, but once in a while, gripped by the need to type a fresh version of a certain passage, I would type by candle or kerosene lamp and be treated to their [bats'] swoopings through the room.

   2007, Annie Finch, On Her Poems and Her Life as a Poet

2. countableuncountableA high-speed landing technique in skydiving.

1. That swoops or swoop.

   With a huge rush of wind a swooping eagle dropped from out of the night sky.

   1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 142