swimming

Plural: swimmings

Noun

• The act or sport of one who swims.
• the act of swimming; :
  • "it was the swimming they enjoyed most"
• The act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water.
• The state of being dizzy or in vertigo.

Verb

• travel through water
  • "a big fish was swimming in the tank"
• be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
• be dizzy or giddy
  • "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne"
• be covered with or submerged in a liquid
  • "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"
• move as if gliding through water
• present participle and gerund of swim

Adjective Satellite

• filled or brimming with tears
  • "swimming eyes"
• applied to a fish depicted horizontally

Examples

• He did a brilliant swim last summer.
• His perfect Scrabble game was an example of strategic swimming through a sea of tiles.

Synonyms

drown, float, liquid, naiant, swim

Antonyms

sink

Related Words

artistic swimming, free-swimming, ice swimming, oblique-swimming triplefin, swimming bath, swimming bell, swimming briefs, swimming cap, swimming costume, swimming crab, swimming diaper, swimming goggles, swimming hole, swimming nappy, swimming pool, swimming pool acid, swimming shorts, swimming stone, swimming trunks, synchronised swimming, synchronized swimming

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