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The French word for swing is
balançoire





swing

Plural

The plural of balançoire is balançoires.

French Definition


swing
     1. n. Balançoire.
           A swing is a hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
     2. n. (Musique) Swing.
           'All God's chillun got rhythm. All God's chillun got swing.
     3. n. (Politique) Revirement, transfert.
           A swing, in an election, is the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
           Un transfert, dans une élection, est l'augmentation ou la diminution du nombre de votes pour les partis d'opposition par rapport aux votes pour le parti sortant.
           The polls showed a wide swing to Labour.
           Les sondages montraient un vaste revirement en faveur des travaillistes.
     4. v. Balancer.
     5. v. (Argot) (Sexe) Pratiquer l'échangisme.

Translations for swing and their definitions

balançoire
     1. n-f. swing (a seat connected to a beam by rope or chain)
     2. n-f. seesaw (a long board attached to a fulcrum)


balancer
     1. v. swing, to swing, (to do a reciprocating movement)
     2. v. swing, to swing, (to ride on a swing)
     3. v. (Quebec) balance, to balance, (make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond)
     4. v. (France, slang) denounce, to denounce, (to make a formal or public accusation against, l), rat, to rat
     5. v. (informal) toss, to toss, (to throw)
     6. v. (informal) throw away, to throw away, (to discard)


osciller
     1. v. to oscillate
     2. v. to wobble


changer
     1. v. to exchange (something)
     2. v. to change (money, a job, one's circumstances etc.)
     3. v. to change, alter (something en into)
     4. v. to change (a diaper)
     5. v. to change
     6. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to change (one's clothes), get changed


variation
     1. n-f. variation


modifier
     1. v. to change, modify


revirement
     1. n-m. change of mind
     2. n-m. reversal (total change)
     3. n-m. (hockey) turnover


swinguer
     1. v. to swing (dance)


balancement
     1. n-m. rocking, swaying
     2. n-m. equilibrium, balance


doublure
     1. n-f. lining
     2. n-f. (theater) understudy
     3. n-f. (cinema) body double, stand-in; stuntman


se balancer



pendre
     1. v. to hang
     2. v. to sag, droop


swing
     1. n-m. swing; (several senses)


altérer
     1. v. to alter; change; fiddle with
     2. v. to cause thirst


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