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 and basketball, 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)
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)
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