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[[File:theswing.jpg|frame|Fragonard's ''The Swing'', possibly the [[Trope Maker]].]]

Or putting a grown woman (20s to 30s) on a swing and how that's cute and/or hot. [[Panty Shot]] optional, but certainly implied.

Even modern examples often imply the woman is reliving her childhood, a good 20 years ago.

As the trope's name comes from the slave spiritual song "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", this is not to be confused with [[Dirty Harriet]], unless it occurs at some very weird strip club...

Also has very little to do with [[Trauma Swing]].
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== Art ==
* [http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/resources/frag_swing.jpg Older Than Radio] — and in fact seen as mildly naughty ''[[Fan Service]]'' in the early modern era. Hint: Imagine how antiquated undergarments would work on a swing.

== [[Film]] ==
* A film called "Girl on a Swing" involves a statue of a [[Creepy Child]] on a swing, which is mysteriously connected to the male lead's [[Love Interest]], who is also seen on a swing.
* ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]''.
* Played straight in "The Saddest Music in the World": Narcissa sings "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" while sitting on an elaborately decorated swing
* Kenneth Branagh's ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' had Beatrice on a swing.
* Unsexy variation in ''[[Ten Things I Hate About You]]'': Patrick sits Kat down on the swings when she's drunk at the [[Wild Teen Party]] and tries to keep her from passing out. They have a little bit of a "moment," and then she pukes on his shoes.
** Later, there's a scene where Kat looks down from her bedroom window to see Bianca sitting on a tire swing, dressed in notably little-girlish clothes, and [[Cool Big Sis|decides to go to the prom so Bianca can, too]].
* The first ''[[Bring It On]]'' movie has a scene where Torrance sits on a swing.
* ''[[Fantasia]]'' has it in the Pastoral Symphony, when the cupids are matchmaking among the Centaurs.
* Played entirely straight in the 1993 erotic drama ''Sirens''.

== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Sound and The Fury]]'': The swing in the garden is the site of one of Caddy's first trysts with a boyfriend, and [[Book Ends|much later]], her daughter Quentin also goes there with a boy.
* Kristina, one of the heroines in Vilhelm Moberg's ''[[The Emigrants]]'' novels, is fond of swinging and continues to do it in secret even when she's an adult. She first met her husband, Karl Oskar, while recovering from a wounded knee after she fell out of a swing, and interprets it as a sign that God makes bad things happen only so good things can come out of them. The musical adaptation, ''Kristina från Duvemåla'', opens with Kristina on her swing. 
* Subverted in ''Superwally: The Advanced Wally Manual'' by Paul Manning, which describes "Wallettes" as sitting on the swings in public playgrounds to gossip, and swearing at small children who want a go. Not cute ''or'' hot.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' has it on the promo pictures.
* Harry Enfield once did a parody of this trope. He made this [[Darker and Edgier]] film titled 'Poppet on a Swing' in one of his sketches.
* There's an advert for a spa in the UK press with some lady in a low-cut one-piece swimsuit on a swing.
* An old episode of ''[[Wild Wild West]]'', with the straitlaced [[Girl of the Week]] being hypnotized into this.
* 313 in the 2009 version of ''[[The Prisoner]]'', several times when she's brooding.
* In the ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' episode "Hollow Pursuits", Barclay's holographic version of Beverly Crusher sits in a swing wearing an enormous frock.
* In the ''[[Bones]]'' episode The Girl with the Curl, Hodgins takes Angela swinging for their first date.

== [[Music Videos]] ==
* Must have occurred in a [[Gwen Stefani]] video.
* Catatonia, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aopiRVxIBFc Dead From the Waist Down]".
* TLC's "No Scrubs" video.
* The John Anderson song ''Swinging'':
{{quote| Little Charlotte she's a darlin'<br />
she's the apple of my eye<br />
and when I'm on the swing with her<br />
she makes me almost high<br />
Charlotte is my lover<br />
she has been since the spring<br />
I just can't believe it started<br />
On her front porch in a swing<br />
just a swingin'  }}

== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
* One episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' had special guest Theresa Brewer in a recreation of the Fragonard painting. She attempted to sing "Spinning Wheel" while being pushed by Sweetums.

== [[Real Life]] ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit Evelyn Nesbit], the "Girl on the Red Velvet Swing". 

== [[Theater]] ==
* The first act of the dance musical "Contact" is based on ''The Swing'' painting. The Girl and [[Swapped Roles|The Servant]] have no problem making contact.

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