Sweep or swept may refer to:

Cleaning

  • Sweep, the action of using a brush to clean
  • Chimney sweep, a worker who clears ash and soot from chimneys
  • Street sweeper, a person's occupation
  • Street sweeper, a machine that cleans streets
  • Swept quartz, a cleaning of quartz crystal from alkali metal ions

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Sweep (book series), a fictional series by Cate Tiernan
  • Sweep (puppet), a character on the British children's television series The Sooty Show
  • Sweep, an ability keyword in Magic: The Gathering
  • Sweep-picking, a guitar technique
  • Sweeps period, a system of calculating viewership for television programming
  • Swept (album), a 1991 album by the English singer Julia Fordham
  • "Swept", a 1986 song by Spandau Ballet from the album Through the Barricades

Detection

  • Bug sweeping, the common name for electronic counter surveillance
  • Minesweeper (ship), a small naval ship designed to engage in minesweeping
  • Minesweeping, the practice of removing explosive mines
  • Radio-frequency sweep, the action of scanning a radio frequency band for detecting signals transmitted there
  • SWEEPS, a 2006 astronomical survey project using the Hubble Space Telescope

Farming

  • Sweep (agricultural), a row crop cultivator
  • SWEEP (Soil and Water Environmental Enhancement program), a Canadian agricultural program 1986–1988

People with the name

  • Shaun Wright-Phillips, a football player nicknamed Sweep

Sports

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  • Sweep (American football), a running play in American football
  • Packers sweep, a running play popularized by Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers
  • Sweep (martial arts), the name used for two categories of martial arts techniques
  • Sweep (rowing), a rowing technique
  • Sweep shot, a shot played in cricket
  • Sweep (sports), or whitewash, winning a series or contest without any losses
  • Curling involves sweeping on ice

Other meanings

  • Sweep (fish), a number of fish in the suborder Scorpidinae
  • Sweep (horse) (1907–1936), champion Thoroughbred race horse
  • Sweep (motorcycle), in group motorcycle riding, the last rider in line
  • Sweep (software), a digital audio editor
  • Sweep, a gradual bend or elbow, in conduit, ductwork, piping, or other tubing
  • Well sweep, an irrigation tool
  • Sweep account, a kind of bank account
  • Sweep line algorithm, a concept in computational geometry
  • Sweeps, a regional English term for windmill sails
  • Sweepstakes, a sales promotion or lottery
  • Swept wing, a layout of the wings on an airplane
  • Selective sweep, a loss of genetic variation caused by selection for a beneficial mutation

See also

  • Sweeper (disambiguation)
  • Sweeps (disambiguation)
  • Broom
  • Clean sweep (disambiguation)
  • Mop