Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. a door that swings on a double hinge; opens in either direction [syn: swing door]
Usage examples of "swinging door".
Someone slamming through the swinging door from the restroom hallway.
With the arrogance and the blood hunger of Gestapos, they slam through the swinging door, their boot heels clopping hard against the tile floor.
The wildly swinging door had still not reached the full limit of travel on its hinges when the room echoed to the flat staccato chatter of Andrea's Schmeisser: Mallory, peering over Andrea's shoulder through the swirling cordite smoke, saw two German soldiers, lethally cursed with over-fast reactions, slumping wearily to the floor.
One of these, in fact, caught on and unhinged a swinging door as it came inside.
A tiny swinging door poked up and outward, and the mottled red and black head of a lizard poked through the opening.
The Kid pushed open the swinging door and gazed upon the room in which the crime had been committed.
Chase took a chair at a table that put his back to the counter, yet enabled him to see the front door and the swinging door into the rear kitchen.
Quickly now he moved onto his back, feet first toward the swinging door.
The woman got up and walked through a swinging door to one side of her station.
He watched her push through the swinging door and disappear into the dining hall.
Muttering about finding out the news, the Warder grimly disappeared through that swinging door, swallowed by a wave of merriment.
The poor goblin who had swung the doors didn't realize that a human was blocking one from opening all the way, didn't even realize that anybody was outside, until Juraviel, ducking and turning under the swinging door, lifted his bow and put an arrow right between the creature's eyes.
He made it safely to the kitchen, snapping on the light as he let the swinging door close behind him.