History Main / VineSwing

* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'': Defied in "The Bigger They Are, the Louder They Oink"; Baloo and Kit get chased up a tree by a lion. Baloo sees a vine and decides to swing on it, having SawItInAMovieOnce. When he does, the vine snaps from his weight. He and Kit land in a pile of leaves, and Kit remarks "[[DeadpanSnarker Is that what happened in the movie?]]"

* [[NatureHero Wild Smurf]] does this in the medieval Europe-style Smurf Forest in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs''.

* ''Videogame/BluesJourney'' for the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo has leafy vines hanging around for this purpose.

In fiction, these vines will usually be portrayed as flexible as ropes. In RealLife, those that are strong enough to carry the weight of a human are much more stiff. It must also be noted that vines clinging to trees are ''securely'' attached to the tree, you can't just easily pull one free of the trunk and start swinging. In addition, the vine itself is usually attached ''to the same tree you're standing on'', so you aren't going to be able to easily swing from one tree to another.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'':
** In the minigame Picking Panic, two teams compete to see who can deposit more cherries into their baskets, and use swinging ropes hanging from trees to this end. In each team, a player grabs a cherry offered by an Ukiki and passes it to their partner to put it into the basket. The size of each cherry determines its weight, and thus how far it'll move after being thrown. The team that deposits the most cherries wins; but if both teams end up depositing the same amount, the minigame ends in a draw.
** The minigame Vine With Me pits two dueling characters in a race in the jungle where they have to move across moving swings to reach the goal (a tree's robust branch). The vines come in different lengths and speeds, so timing is key to avoid falling down (though that outcome wouldn't disqualify a character anyway, they just waste time getting back to the last vine they were hanging on). The first character to reach the goal wins.

* Franchise/{{Tarzan}} in [[LostInImitation every single film version]], be it live-action or animated. He's pretty much the TropeCodifier.

* In episode 25b of ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'', Flowertchi swings into the school classroom on a vine when Lovelitchi picks her a flower that's supposed to represent the wilderness, but seems to have turned her into a wild savage instead.

* ''Film/KingKong2005''. Bruce Baxter does this during his BigDamnHeroes in the insect pit, while firing a tommy gun no less. Given that he's an actor, he was likely imitating this trope from one of his movies.

** In ''Tales Of The Masks'', ''Tahu'' of all people resorts to this when Lewa is cornered by the Nuvahk-Kal and its the only way to get to him in time; Tahu insists they [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain never speak of it again]].

* In ''VideoGame/BalthazarsDream'', Balthazar can swing on vines in the forest level, and rope in the indoor level.

** In the minigame Picking Panic, two teams compete to see who can deposit more cherries into their baskets, and use swinging ropes hanging from trees to this end. In each team, a player grabs a cherry offered by an Ukiki, and passes it to their partner to put it into the basket. The size of each cherry determines its weight, and thus how far it'll move after being thrown. The team that deposits the most cherries wins; but if both teams end up depositing the same amount, the minigame ends in a draw.

* ''WesternAnimation/JanaOfTheJungle'' often travels this way as she searches the South American rain forest for her lost father.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/NedsNewt'' had Newton save Ned from a bunch of island natives who were about to [[AppeaseTheVolcanoGod throw him into a volcano]] by swinging across on a vine and grabbing him. One of the natives [[LampshadeHanging immediately asks what the vine can possibly be hanging off of, since they are atop a volcano]].

In fiction, these vines will usually be portrayed as flexible as ropes. In RealLife, those that are strong enough to carry the weight of a human are much more stiff.

* In the opening scene of ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'', Marty does this during his daydream. Then he and Alex actually do it when they "go wild" on the island of Madagascar.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', Robin Hood swings on a vine to "rescue" Princess Fiona from Shrek.

Compare BuildingSwing, which is this done in a more man-made environment, usually with ropes, and ChandelierSwing, the indoors, swashbuckling counterpart.