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Swimming at the 2026 Asian Games
Swimming at the 2026 Asian Games (Aichi-Nagoya): 41 events held 20-25 September 2026 at Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Shin Ohashi set a 200m breaststroke world record (2:04.83); Zhang Zhanshuo won seven golds; China took a record 30 swimming golds.
Swimming at the 2026 Commonwealth Games
Swimming at the 2026 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow 2026): race swimming and para-swimming at Tollcross International Swimming Centre, 24-29 July 2026; largest program ever with 56 medal events, debuts of men's 800m and women's 1500m freestyle.
Swimming at the 2026 Mediterranean Games
Swimming at the 2026 Mediterranean Games (Taranto, 21 Aug-3 Sep 2026): 41 pool events (20 men's, 20 women's, 1 mixed medley) at the new Torre d'Ayala Stadio del Nuoto; Italy led with 51 medals.
Swimming at the Summer Olympics
Swimming at the Summer Olympics: pool racing discipline contested at every Games since 1896, also called Olympic swimming. Governed by World Aquatics (FINA); 35 pool events plus 10 km marathon swimming; US leads with 614 medals.
Swimming Home (film)
Swimming Home is a 2024 drama film, Justin Anderson's feature debut, adapting Deborah Levy's 2011 Man Booker-nominated novel; Mackenzie Davis, Christopher Abbott, Ariane Labed, and Nadine Labaki star; it premiered in IFFR's Tiger Competition and holds 31% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Swimming pool
Swimming pool: human-made basin for recreation, exercise, and competition, from backyard basins to 50 m Olympic venues (50 m × 25 m, 10 lanes). Covers hydraulics (skimmer vs gutter/rim-flow, turnover), chlorination chemistry, evaporation, costs, safety, and post-2023 depth and drought rules.
Swimming Pool (2003 film)
Swimming Pool (2003), François Ozon's first English-language film, is a France-UK psychological thriller starring Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, and Charles Dance; it competed at Cannes 2003, won Rampling the European Film Award for Best Actress, and grossed $10.1 million in the US.
Swimming stroke
Swimming stroke: the four competitive strokes, freestyle (front crawl), backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly, their history from breaststroke and the Australian crawl to the 1926 butterfly, and their differing energy costs and biomechanics.
Swimming with Sharks
Swimming with Sharks is a 2022 American Hollywood thriller series created by Kathleen Robertson, a gender-swapped remake of the 1994 cult film, released on The Roku Channel.
Swimsuit
Swimsuit: garment for swimming, evolving from 1850s wool bathing dresses through Jantzen's 1921 swimming suit, Lastex, nylon, and Lycra, to the 1946 bikini, monokini, Burqini, and recycled-fiber designs.
Swin Cash
Swin Cash (Swintayla Marie Cash), born 1979, American basketball forward and executive; three WNBA titles, two Olympic golds, two NCAA championships, 2022 Naismith Hall of Fame inductee, former Pelicans senior VP.
Swin Transformer
The Swin Transformer is a vision transformer introduced by Microsoft Research in 2021, computing attention in shifted local windows for image classification, detection, and segmentation.
Swinburne Islet
Swinburne Islet is a small islet in North Coast Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, near Pacofi off Alford Point on Moresby Island, Haida Gwaii; elevation 9 m, used as a transit for anchorage in Pacofi Bay.
Swindon
Swindon is a large town in north-east Wiltshire, England, that grew around the Great Western Railway works opened in 1843 and closed in 1986; population about 233,400 at Census 2021.
Swindon Town F.C.
Swindon Town F.C., the Robins, English club founded 1879, at the County Ground since 1896. League Cup winners 1969 (3-1 v Arsenal), one Premier League season 1993-94, now in League Two.
Swindon Works
Swindon Works, also known as Swindon railway works, was the Great Western Railway's principal locomotive and carriage works in Swindon, Wiltshire, operating 1843 to 1986.
Swine influenza
Swine influenza, commonly called swine flu, is a respiratory illness of pigs caused by influenza A viruses; it occasionally infects people exposed to pigs and caused the 2009 pandemic.
Swine vesicular disease
Swine vesicular disease (SVD), also called swine vesicular disease virus infection, is a mild enteroviral disease of pigs caused by a porcine variant of human coxsackievirus B5, clinically indistinguishable from foot-and-mouth disease; first seen in Italy in 1966, last clinical case worldwide in 2015.
Swing (dance)
Swing dance is an umbrella term for American partner dances from 1920s–40s jazz and big band music, including Lindy Hop, Balboa, Charleston, East Coast Swing, and West Coast Swing.
Swing (Java)
Swing, also known as Java Swing, is the graphical user interface toolkit for Java, provided in the javax.swing package as lightweight, all-Java components with a pluggable look and feel.
Swing (politics)
Electoral swing measures the change in party vote share between elections, typically the Butler two-party average in percentage points. Invented by David Butler (1947) and popularized by the BBC Swingometer (1955, 1959), it underpins uniform national swing seat projections and swing voter analysis.
Swing bowling
Swing bowling, cricket's lateral ball movement in flight, uses an angled seam to create asymmetric airflow. Covers conventional, reverse, and contrast swing, speed ranges, and the humidity myth.
Swing bridge
A swing bridge, also called a turntable bridge, is a movable bridge whose span rotates horizontally about a central pivot pier, clearing the waterway for passing vessels.
Swing equation
The swing equation is the second-order differential equation governing a synchronous machine's rotor angle during power system disturbances, balancing mechanical input power against electrical output power.
Swing Fever (album)
Swing Fever, a 2024 collaborative studio album by Rod Stewart and Jools Holland with his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, released 23 February 2024; 13 big band era covers, 38 minutes, East West/Rhino, UK number 1.
Swing footbridge
A swing footbridge is a pedestrian or cycle bridge whose deck rotates horizontally about a vertical axis on a pivot pier, letting boats pass through the gap.
Swing Girls (スウィングガールズ)
Swing Girls (スウィングガールズ) is a 2004 Japanese teen comedy by Shinobu Yaguchi, starring Juri Ueno, about high school girls who form a big band after food poisoning fells the brass band; 8th at the 2004 Japanese box office, seven Japan Academy Prize wins.
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is an African American spiritual first published in 1872 by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, traditionally attributed to Wallace Willis, recorded from 1894, and sung by England rugby fans since 1987.
Swing music
Swing music, also called swing jazz, is a style of jazz played by big dance bands that dominated American popular music from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s.
Swing Out Sister
Swing Out Sister are a British sophisti-pop duo (Corinne Drewery, Andy Connell; originally a trio with Martin Jackson) formed in Manchester in 1985, known for "Breakout" (UK top 5, US #6) and the 1987 chart-topping debut It's Better to Travel.