title: Swindle
text: # Swindle
  
  A swindle is a kind of fraud or confidence trick.
  
  Swindle may also refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Swindle (surname)
  
  ## Places
  
  * Swindle Island, British Columbia, Canada
  * 8690 Swindle, an asteroid
  
  ## Films
  
  * Il bidone (English titles The Swindle or The Swindlers), a 1955 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini
  * The Swindle (1997 film), a French crime-comedy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert
  * Swindle (2002 film), a crime thriller starring Tom Sizemore and Sherilyn Fenn
  * Swindle (2013 film), a television film based on Gordon Korman's book Swindle
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Swindle (chess), a ruse by which a chess player in a losing position tricks his opponent
  * Swindle (Transformers), several fictional characters in the Transformers universe
  * Swindle (novel), a 2008 children's book by Gordon Korman
  * Swindle (magazine), a bi-monthly arts and culture publication from 2004 to 2009
  * The Swindle (video game), a 2015 video game
  