Crossword clues for swam
swam
- Did the breaststroke, perhaps
- Crossed the Rubicon, maybe
- Crossed the Channel, a la Ederle
- Crossed the Channel, Ã la Ederle
- Competed with Michael Phelps, for example
- Competed in a triathlon
- What Ian Thorpe did
- Went skinny-dipping
- Went by water, in a way
- Went bathing
- Used a pool
- Used a natatory facility
- Traveled with a school
- Traveled in trunks?
- Took the plunge, perhaps
- Took part in a school activity?
- Thao and the Get Down Stay Down "When We ___"
- Thao "When We ___"
- Showed off one's butterfly?
- Performed one-third of a triathlon
- Performed in an aquacade
- Performed a water ballet
- Participated in the Summer Games, perhaps
- Participated in the first leg of a triathlon
- Participated in a medley, perhaps
- Participated in a medley relay
- Participated in a freestyle relay
- Moved in waves, perhaps
- Moved at a crawl?
- Kept one's head above water?
- Kept one's head above water
- Joined Mark Spitz
- Got one's kicks at the pool?
- Freestyled or backstroked, maybe
- Exercised off your feet
- Exercised in the water
- Exercised in a lane
- Enjoyed the surf
- Enjoyed some natatory activity
- Engaged in natatory exercise
- Dog-paddled, say
- Dog-paddled, maybe
- Didn't just float
- Did the trudgen
- Did the first leg of a triathlon
- Did the dog paddle
- Did the crawl, maybe
- Did the butterfly or backstroke, for example
- Did pool laps
- Did one part of a typical triathlon
- Did breaststroke
- Did a lap in the pool
- Did a freestyle
- Did a backstroke, say
- Did 1/3 of a triathlon
- Crossed the pool
- Crawled, perhaps
- Crawled, maybe
- Crawled back and forth, perhaps
- Completed part of a triathlon
- Competed like Simone Manuel
- Competed like Michael Phelps
- Chiodos "We ___ From Albatross the Day We Lost Kailey Cost"
- Came crawling back?
- Came crawling back, maybe
- Began a typical triathlon
- Did laps in the pool
- Frog-kicked
- Flutter-kicked
- Did the crawl, say
- Emulated Janet Evans
- Traveled horizontally
- Did the butterfly, e.g
- Used a natatorium
- Emulated Leander
- Dog-paddled, e.g.
- Did the butterfly, e.g.
- Was dizzy
- Crawled, say
- Stroked
- Did one leg of an Ironman competition
- Did one-third of a triathlon
- Did laps, maybe
- Went from bank to bank?
- Was in a meet, maybe
- Didn't sink, say
- Did laps in a pool
- Dog-paddled, e.g
- Did laps, say
- Started a triathlon
- Did laps, perhaps
- Participated in a pool, say
- Skinny-dipped, say
- Took a dip
- Began a triathlon
- Competed in the first leg of a triathlon
- Traveled in trunks, say
- Crawled, in a way
- Emulated Spitz
- Used the pool
- Emulated Ederle
- Emulated Tracy Caulkins
- Aped minnows
- Traveled like Spitz
- Emulated Mark Spitz
- Did a Spitz act
- Did the backstroke, e.g
- Emulated Michael Phelps
- Went through channels?
- Went for a dip
- Went up the river?
- Enjoyed a pool
- Enjoyed the lake
- Did some laps, say
- Made a splash?
- Did the doggy paddle
- Did a few laps
- What R.E.M. did at night?
- Went underwater
- Used a scissors kick
- Used a scissor kick
- Took to the pool
- Propelled oneself?
- Moved with strokes
- Moved in water
- Had a stroke?
- Enjoyed the pool
- Emulated Phelps
- Emulated Nyad
- Dog-paddled, perhaps
- Did water ballet
- Did the breaststroke, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swam \Swam\, imp. of Swim.
Swim \Swim\, v. i. [imp. Swamor Swum; p. p. Swum; p. pr. & vb. n. Swimming.] [AS. swimman; akin to D. zwemmen, OHG. swimman, G. schwimmen, Icel. svimma, Dan. sw["o]mme, Sw. simma. Cf. Sound an air bladder, a strait.]
To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.
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To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point.
--Shak. -
To be overflowed or drenched.
--Ps. vi. 6.Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim.
--Thomson. -
Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
[They] now swim in joy.
--Milton. -
To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.]
[Streams] that swim full of small fishes.
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past tense of swim (v.).
Wiktionary
vb. (en-simple past of: swim)
WordNet
See swim
Usage examples of "swam".
As the humans whipped around the outer edges of the dancing whirlpool, the afanc swam in quick lunges and ripped them free in its jaws.
Spotting a thick copse of the claw coral ahead, Flyys turned and swam for it.
Frozen in place, he watched helplessly as the morkoth swam to the surface with him.
Laaqueel watched them with interest, noting the way they swam so clumsily.
The surface dwellers swam uncertainly, staying within a group near the coral-tiled floor.
It flipped its wings again and swam for the outskirts of the amphitheater.
Before it could reach the edges high over the gathered crowd, four sharks under the control of the sahuagin guards swam to meet it.
Jherek let him go, watching for a moment as the boy kicked away and swam in a crude dog paddle that seemed serviceable enough.
Other creatures Iakhovas controlled through arcane means swam beneath the river, working with the sahuagin to take the harbor.
Kicking out, he swam for the thrashing horses, aware of the sahuagin and the other sea creatures filling the water around him.
One of the horses swam away, but the other gave in to the wounds the sahuagin had inflicted on it and went still in the water.
The young sailor kicked out and swam to the wagon ahead of a pair of sahuagin.
He thrust his sword through the sash at his waist, then hooked an arm under the dwarfs chin from behind and swam for the docks.
Before anyone knew what was going on, Iakhovas leaped from the terrace and swam out into the amphitheater.
Iakhovas leaped from the corpse and swam high into the space above the amphitheater.