Does the form convey the meaning?

fling, sling and swing.

All describe movement in an arc. Is there any difference between sling and fling? The difference of being directed at a target, or not?

We can add slip to movement in an arc–down and along.

sling the backpack up on the truck versus fling the towel around the waist https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/ has sling/fling the ball and slung the strap/flung the door as top cites. No cites of my examples, so no diff? For balls, sure, but sling the door/fling the door?, surely not.

So the difference in meaning between fling and sling is not clear.

See DickFosbury

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