Sweep may refer to any of the following:
Cleaning
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
Detection
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.
