Sweep

• Sweep (football play)
• Sweep (martial arts)
  Sweep (martial arts)
  A sweep is the name used for two categories of martial arts techniques: a throw or takedown from the clinch that utilizes only your legs and foward, backward or rotational momentum to off balance your opponents legs to take him to the ground, or a reversal of position when groundfighting.- Standing...
  
  
• Sweep (rowing)
  Sweep (rowing)
  Sweep or sweep-oar rowing is a type of rowing when a rower has one oar, usually held with both hands. As each rower has only one oar, the rowers have to be paired so that there is an oar are on each side of the boat. This is in contrast to sculling when a rower has two oars, one in each hand. In...
  
  
• Batting (cricket)#Types of batting shots, a shot played in cricket
• A nickname for football player Shaun Wright-Phillips
  Shaun Wright-Phillips
  Shaun Cameron Wright-Phillips is an English football player and is currently playing in his second spell at Premier League side Manchester City....
  
  
• An expression used in sports that have best of multiple game playoff series when a team wins the required number of games without a single loss. (Example Basketball: 1991 NBA Eastern Conference Finals Chicago Bulls vs Detroit Pistons/Best of seven series/Bulls win 4-0)
• An expression used in baseball if either team has 4 non-consecutive wins over another team in a best of 7 series.

Sports

• Sweep (football play)
• Sweep (martial arts)
  Sweep (martial arts)
  A sweep is the name used for two categories of martial arts techniques: a throw or takedown from the clinch that utilizes only your legs and foward, backward or rotational momentum to off balance your opponents legs to take him to the ground, or a reversal of position when groundfighting.- Standing...
  
  
• Sweep (rowing)
  Sweep (rowing)
  Sweep or sweep-oar rowing is a type of rowing when a rower has one oar, usually held with both hands. As each rower has only one oar, the rowers have to be paired so that there is an oar are on each side of the boat. This is in contrast to sculling when a rower has two oars, one in each hand. In...
  
  
• Batting (cricket)#Types of batting shots, a shot played in cricket
• A nickname for football player Shaun Wright-Phillips
  Shaun Wright-Phillips
  Shaun Cameron Wright-Phillips is an English football player and is currently playing in his second spell at Premier League side Manchester City....
  
  
• An expression used in sports that have best of multiple game playoff series when a team wins the required number of games without a single loss. (Example Basketball: 1991 NBA Eastern Conference Finals Chicago Bulls vs Detroit Pistons/Best of seven series/Bulls win 4-0)
• An expression used in baseball if either team has 4 non-consecutive wins over another team in a best of 7 series. ("Example" Baseball: 2001 World Series NY Yankees vs Arizona Diamondbacks "Arizona sweeps the World Series 4-3")

Other meanings

• Sweep (horse)
  Sweep (horse)
  Sweep was an American thoroughbred stallion racehorse. Bred by James R. Keene, he was sired by Kentucky Derby winner Ben Brush out of the Domino mare, Pink Domino.Sweep was a champion two year old with a long stride...
  
  , a champion thoroughbred race horse
• Sweep (book series)
  Sweep (book series)
  The "Sweep" series, published in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and Australia as "Wicca" and in Italy and France as "White Magic", is a series of books by Cate Tiernan. Starting with Book of Shadows, the series is a work of fiction set against a U.S...
  
  , a fictional series by Cate Tiernan
• Sweep (software)
  Sweep (software)
  Sweep is a digital audio editor and live playback tool for Linux, BSD and compatible systems. It is able to handle many sound formats, including MP3, WAV and Vorbis. The most notable feature of Sweep is its stylus-like cursor tool called Scrubby....
  
  , a digital audio editor
• Sweep (fish) a number of fish in the suborder Scorpidinae
• Sweep account
  Sweep account
  A sweep account is an account set up at a bank or other financial institution where the funds are automatically managed between a primary cash account and secondary investment accounts....
  
  , a kind of bank account
• Sweep line algorithm
  Sweep line algorithm
  In computational geometry, a sweep line algorithm or plane sweep algorithm is a type of algorithm that uses a conceptual sweep line or sweep surface to solve various problems in Euclidean space...
  
  , a concept in computational geometry
• Sweep-picking
  Sweep-picking
  Sweep picking is a technique used on the guitar in which a 'sweeping' motion of the pick is combined with a matching fret hand technique in order to produce a specific series of notes which are fast and fluid in sound...
  
  , a guitar technique
• Swept wing
  Swept wing
  A swept wing is a wing planform with a wing root to wingtip direction angled beyond the spanwise axis, generally used to delay the drag rise caused by fluid compressibility. Swept wings provide lateral stability and it was for this reason that the concept was first employed in the designs of...
  
  , a layout of the wings on an airplane
• Sweeps period, a system of calculating viewership for television programming
• Sweep (puppet)
  Sweep (puppet)
  Sweep is a British puppet and TV character popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and other countries.Sweep is a grey, glove puppet dog with long black ears who joined The Sooty Show in 1957, as a friend to fellow puppet Sooty...
  
  , a character on the Sooty television show
• SWEEPS, the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search
• Sweepstakes
  Sweepstakes
  In the United States consumer sales promotions known as sweepstakes or simply sweeps have become associated with marketing promotions targeted toward both generating enthusiasm and providing incentive reactions among customers by enticing consumers to submit free entries into drawings of chance ...
  
  , a sales promotion or lottery