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Sweep may refer to any of the following:

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 (martial arts)
• Sweep, a shot played in cricket
• 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. Likewise a team that wins the gold, silver, and bronze medals in an event in the Olympic Games has "swept" the event.

Farming

• Sweep (Agricultural)

Detection

• bug sweeping
• minesweeping
• sweeping a circle or sector with a RADAR beam
• sweeping a circle of sector with a SONAR Beam

Other meanings

• Sweep (horse), a champion thoroughbred race horse
• Sweep (book series), a fictional series by Cate Tiernan
• Sweep (software), a digital audio editor
• Sweep (fish) a number of fish in the suborder Scorpidinae
• 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
• Sweep (puppet), a character on the Sooty television show
• SWEEPS, the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search.
• Sweep, abbreviation of sweepstake, a sales promotion or lottery
• A sweep is the sail of a windmill, particularly in Kent and Sussex.

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