Sweep
Sweep may refer to any of the following:
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Cleaning
- Chimney sweep
- Street sweeper
- To clean using a broom or brush
Boating
- A kind of oar used for guiding bateaus and similar boats
- In sport rowing, a boat that has only one oar per rower
Sports
- Sweep (football play)
- Sweep (grappling)
- Sweep (martial arts)
- A nickname for football player Shaun Wright-Phillips
- A team that wins an elimination series in the minimum possible number of games, or that wins all of its regular season games against a particular opponent, is said to have "swept" its opponent
Other meanings
- Sweep (horse), a champion thoroughbred race horse
- Sweep (book series), a fictional series by Cate Tiernan
- Sweep (software), a digital audio editor
- Silver sweep (Scorpis lineolata), a fish
- Sweep account, a kind of bank account
- Sweep line algorithm, a concept in computational geometry
- Sweep-picking, a guitar technique
- Swept wing, a layout of the wings on an airplane
- Sweeps, a system of calculating viewership for television programming
- A character on the Sooty television show
- SWEEPS, the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search.