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swoopings

swoopings is the plural of swooping.

Meaning of swooping

Noun

swooping (countable and uncountable, plural swoopings)

  1. The 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. A high-speed landing technique in skydiving.

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Questions about swoopings

What is swoopings the plural of?
Swoopings is the plural of swooping.

Words near swoopings in the dictionary

  1. swoopiness
  2. swooping
  3. swooping season
  4. swooping seasons
  5. swoopingly
  6. swoopings
  7. swoops
  8. swoopstake
  9. swoopstakes
  10. swoopy
  11. swoord

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swoopings (page history and authors); swooping (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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