Usually means: Rapidly descending and ascending movement.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word swooping:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. swooping: Merriam-Webster
  2. swooping: Collins English Dictionary
  3. swooping: Vocabulary.com
  4. Swooping, swooping: Wordnik
  5. swooping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. swooping: Wiktionary
  7. swooping: Dictionary.com
  8. swooping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Swooping: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Swooping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Swooping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. swooping: FreeDictionary.org
  13. swooping: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swooping: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swooping: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See swoop as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (swooping)

▸ noun:  The motion of something that swoops.
▸ noun:  A high-speed landing technique in skydiving.
▸ adjective:  That swoops or swoop.

Similar:
slide, pounce, swoop up, sloping, sloshing, scoot, downsweep, skimming, swooshtika, snaking, more...

Opposite:
diving, plunging, descending

Types:
dive bombing, glide bombing, strafing, parachuting, parasailing, skydiving, hang gliding, more...

Adjectives:
impetuous, old, far, sudden, fierce, eagle, much, peregrine, down, easy, wild



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Similar:
slide, pounce, swoop up, sloping, sloshing, scoot, downsweep, skimming, swooshtika, snaking, more...

Opposite:
diving, plunging, descending

Types:
dive bombing, glide bombing, strafing, parachuting, parasailing, skydiving, hang gliding, more...

Adjectives:
impetuous, old, far, sudden, fierce, eagle, much, peregrine, down, easy, wild



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