As a verb, swoop may mean:
- Attack swiftly in a military offensive
- Fly or glide downward, as in
- Fixed-wing aircraft flight
- Bird flight
- In Australia, a bird that attacks a person to defend its nest is said to swoop the person
- Bat flight
- Insect flight
As a noun, swoop may mean:
- Swoop (Transformers), several fictional characters in the Transformers series
- A swoop bike
- Swoop (mascot), A costumed mascot for various Universities and the NFL Philadelphia Eagles' mascot
- The red-tailed hawk mascot of the Utah Utes, the sports teams of the University of Utah
- The mascot of the Miami RedHawks of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
- A nickname given to a Marine Corps helicopter pilot
- The Swoop, a novel by P. G. Wodehouse
- Swoop (computer game), Galaxian clone for Mac OS
- Swoop (8-bit computer game), Galaxian clone for 8-bit computers
- Swooping is a kind of canopy piloting
In music, swoop may refer to:
- Swoop (Australian band)
- Swoop (Belgian band)
Swoops may refer to:
- Swoops, a candy manufactured by The Hershey Company
- SWOOPS, Solar Wind Observations Over the Poles of the Sun, an instrument aboard Ulysses (spacecraft)