swooping

• Rhymes: -uːpɪŋ

swooping

1. present participle and gerund of swoop

swooping (countable and uncountable, plural swoopings)

1. The motion of something that swoops.
   • 2007, Annie Finch, On Her Poems and Her Life as a Poet:

     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.

2. A high-speed landing technique in skydiving.

swooping

1. That swoops or swoop.
   • 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 142:

     With a huge rush of wind a swooping eagle dropped from out of the night sky.