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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.
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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 ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130929092309/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]] ==
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* 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 ''[[
** 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.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Sound and
* 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
* ''[[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.
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* 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:
* In the ''[[Bones]]'' episode The Girl with the Curl, Hodgins takes Angela swinging for their first date.
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* TLC's "No Scrubs" video.
* The John Anderson song ''Swinging'':
{{quote|
she's the apple of my eye
and when I'm on the swing with her
she makes me almost high
Charlotte is my lover
she has been since the spring
I just can't believe it started
On her front porch in a swing
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.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
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