Sweep Sweep may refer to any of the following : Look up Sweep in Wiktionary , the free dictionary . Cleaning A verb meaning to pass a broom or brush swiftly and repeatedly along an area to clean it . A chimney sweep . A street sweeper . Hay sweep , a horse -drawn farming equipment . Several fishes : Sea sweep , Scorpis aequipinnis . Silver sweep , Scorpis lineolata . Black pomfret , Parastromateus niger . Cornet fish , Fistularia tabacaria . Tools A very long oar used for guiding bateaus and similar boats . It is used in place of a rudder . In rowing , a sweep is a boat that has only one oar per rower as opposed to a scull in which each rower has one oar on each side of the boat . For tools and wood carving , see gouge . Sports For the American football play that is run to the outside see sweep ( football play ) In sports , a team that wins an elimination series in the minimum possible number of games is said to have `` swept '' its opponent ( as in winning four straight games in a best-of-seven playoff in baseball , basketball , or ice hockey ) . In baseball , a team that wins all of a regular season series of games against an opponent is said to have swept its opponent . Rarely , a team will win a `` season sweep , `` wherein it does not lose a single game against a particular opponent all year . In an instance where the home team has already won the first two games of a three-game or the first three games of a four-game series , fans will sometimes bring brooms to the game and brandish them as a way of taunting the visiting team . In karate and other martial arts a sweep is a technique whereby a karate-ka knocks an opponent 's leg ( s ) out from underneath them . See sweep ( karate technique ) Miscellaneous A sweep , a grappling technique For the open source digital audio editor , see Sweep ( software ) . In aviation , sweep or wing sweep is the angle between the wing and the imaginary line perpendicular to the fuselage . Aircraft wings are normally swept backwards for yaw stability and an increase in maximum flight speeds . See swept wing For the Sweep Line Algorithm , see Line segment intersection . In guitar playing , sweep means laying your fingers in some part of the fretboard usually in the form of an arpeggio , then picking the notes of the arpeggio you have fingered , using either upstrokes or downstrokes continuously for all strings being played , while articulating each note in the pattern ( unlike when strumming . This is usually achieved by removing each finger right after its corresponding note is played , and using one or two of the fingers for more than one position per arpeggio . It is an advanced technique and one that usually requires several months , sometimes years , to master. ( See sweep-picking ) For the series of books by Cate Tiernan , see Sweep ( book series ) . For the dog glove puppet , see Sweep ( puppet ) For the card game , see Sweep ( card game ) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title . If an internal link led you here , you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article . Categories : Disambiguation In other languages : Deutsch 