swing around

Questions about swing around

What is another word for swing around?

It depends which swing around you mean. In the sense “turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically”, the synonyms are swing about, turn around. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of swing around?

WordNet records no antonym for swing around. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for swing around come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of swing around

• Full entry for swing aroundAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for swing aroundWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.