Crossword clues for swim
swim
- Hit the pool
- Enjoy a dip
- Use a flutter kick
- Sink opposite
- Partner of sink
- Exercise activity
- Emulate Ederle
- Come crawling back?
- Workout in a lake
- What Michael Stipe goes for at night?
- Utilize a sidestroke, e.g
- Use a pool
- Triathlon segment
- Triathlon component
- Thick of things
- Thick of society
- Take part in a triathlon
- Stroke, stroke, stroke...
- Sidestroke, e.g
- Show off a butterfly, perhaps
- Participate in one part of a triathlon
- Part of an exercise regimen
- Move through the pool
- Move like a fish
- Move in trunks
- Make like Michael Phelps
- Learn to crawl, perhaps
- Join Leander
- In the ___ (fashionable)
- In the ___ (actively engaged)
- In the ___ (active)
- In the ___ (active in current society)
- Hit the water
- Have a wet workout
- Have a reeling feeling
- Go skinny-dipping, perhaps
- Go down a lane, perhaps
- Freestyle or crawl, for example
- Engage in some natatorial exercise
- Emulate Phelps
- Emulate Michael Phelps
- Emulate Florence Chadwick
- Dog-paddle, e.g
- Dog-paddle or crawl
- Do the first part of an Ironman
- Do the crawl, e.g
- Do the butterfly, e.g
- Do the butterfly or backstroke, for example
- Do the breaststroke, perhaps
- Do the backstroke or butterfly
- Do some pool playing
- Do pool laps, say
- Do pool laps
- Do breaststroke or freestyle
- Do breaststroke
- Do a school activity?
- Dip in the pool
- Cross a channel, in a way
- Crawl, perhaps
- Crawl from lap to lap?
- Compete with a kick
- Compete against Michael Phelps
- Adult ___ (network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network)
- Adult ___ (Cartoon Network's timeshare partner)
- Adult ___ (Cartoon Network subchannel for older viewers)
- Adult ___ (Cartoon Network programming block)
- 1960s fad dance, with "the"
- "Jack's Mannequin" song to backstroke to?
- Crawl, e.g.
- Sidestroke, e.g.
- 60's dance
- Dog-paddle, say
- Thick of things, in a manner of speaking
- Do the crawl, say
- Triathlon leg
- Pool exercise
- Go through channels?
- Do laps, perhaps
- Go up the creek without a paddle?
- Do laps in the pool
- Sink's alternative
- Dip, maybe
- 1960s dance, with "the"
- Make some waves
- Triathlon start
- Do the breaststroke, say
- Travel like a ray
- Do laps in a pool
- You might go for one at the beach
- Do the breaststroke, e.g.
- Exercise at the Y, maybe
- Travel in trunks?
- Sink or ___
- Go down a lane, maybe
- Do the butterfly, perhaps?
- Emulate Mark Spitz
- Dance resembling the watusi
- In the ___ (participating)
- Do the trudgen
- Ape fish
- In the ___ (au courant)
- Join Mark Spitz
- Emulate Leander
- Go for a dip
- Girl returning unfinished sandwiches with dip
- Move through water
- Crawl, say
- Characters predominantly seen working in milk float
- Saw film regularly to experience immersion
- Propel oneself in water
- Dog paddle
- Do the backstroke, say
- Travel through water
- Do the first third of a triathlon
- Take a dip in the pool
- One way to travel by sea
- Go with the flow?
- Enjoy the pool
- Take to the pool
- Start a triathlon
- Do some laps in the pool
- Take to the lake
- Move in water
- Have a stroke?
- Do a triathlon leg
- Sink's opposite
- Sink alternative
- Pool activity
- Perform in an aquacade
- Enjoy a pool
- Use the pool
- Triathlon part
- Travel by sea
- Seem to whirl
- Make for shore
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swim \Swim\, n.
The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.
--B. Jonson.The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
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A part of a stream much frequented by fish. [Eng.]
Swim bladder, an air bladder of a fish.
To be in the swim, to be in a favored position; to be associated with others in active affairs. [Colloq.]
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.
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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.
Swim \Swim\, v. t.
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To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream.
Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main.
--Dryden. To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.
To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.
Swim \Swim\, v. i. [OE. swime dizziness, vertigo, AS. sw[=i]ma; akin to D. zwijm, Icel. svimi dizziness, svina to subside, sv[=i]a to abate, G. schwindel dizziness, schwinden to disappear, to dwindle, OHG. sw[=i]nan to dwindle. Cf. Squemish, Swindler.] To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English swimman "to move in or on the water, float" (class III strong verb; past tense swamm, past participle swummen), from Proto-Germanic *swimjan (cognates: Old Saxon and Old High German swimman, Old Norse svimma, Dutch zwemmen, German schwimmen), from PIE root *swem- "to be in motion."\n
\nThe root is sometimes said to be restricted to Germanic, but according to OED possible cognates are Welsh chwyf "motion," Old Irish do-sennaim "I hunt," Lithuanian sundyti "to chase." For the usual Indo-European word, see natatorium. Transitive sense of "cross by swimming" is from 1590s. Sense of "reel or move unsteadily" first recorded 1670s; of the head or brain, from 1702. Figurative phrase sink or swim is attested from mid-15c., in early use often with reference to ordeals of suspected witches.
1540s, "the clear part of any liquid" (above the sediment), from swim (v.). Meaning "part of a river or stream frequented by fish" (and hence fishermen) is from 1828, and is probably the source of the figurative meaning "the current of the latest affairs or events" (as in in the swim "on the inside, involved with current events," 1869). Meaning "act of swimming" is from 1764.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An act or instance of swimming. 2 The sound, or air bladder, of a fish. 3 (context UK English) A part of a stream much frequented by fish. vb. 1 (context intransitive archaic English) To float. 2 (context intransitive English) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Swim was the second EP by the British alternative rock band Feeder. It was Feeder's second commercial release, but failed to have much success.
The EP had influences of Smashing Pumpkins early work along with Nirvana, Manic Street Preachers and Silverchair that followed on Polythene.
Swim or SWIM may refer to:
"Swim" is a song by the Alternative rock band Fishbone from their album Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe. The song is in a heavy metal style and was written by guitarist John Bigham.
Swim is the major-label debut album by the Ohio-based rock band July for Kings. The track "Normal Life" is noted as the band's most popular track on the album.
Swim is the fourth EP by the American rock band Emily's Army, released on July 22, 2014, through Burger Records and Rise Records. The album is the bands first release on Burger Records and last on Rise Records. The Album was produced by Drummer Joey Armstrong's father, Billie Joe Armstrong. It is the bands last release under their former name "Emily's Army" after changing their name to "Swimmers" in late 2014, and later "Swmrs" in late 2015 It is also the last record to feature lead guitarist Travis Neumann and last to feature Max on bass before switching to lead guitar.
Swim is an album by Caribou, released in April 2010. It was his first album featuring new material since the 2008 Polaris Music Prize-winning Andorra. It featured great changes in comparison to its predecessor, deviating from the psychedelic pop sound and taking more influences from various kinds of electronic dance music, especially deep house and minimal techno.
Dan Snaith, the creative force behind Caribou, said that playing more DJ gigs, such as those at London's Plastic People, influenced him to embrace dance music and a greater range of frequencies in his music. It was songs written for these DJ sets which ultimately came to comprise Swim, though Snaith never originally intended for them to find their way into a Caribou album. Snaith says his work ethic on this album led to about 700 leftover songs, some unfinished, which did not make the album; Swim was, according to Snaith "pretty much me getting up every day and wanting to work on music. Working constantly on it. Making loads and loads and loads of music and then just sifting through to find the bits that I like".
The album was recognized as one of The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far by Pitchfork Media in August 2014.
Usage examples of "swim".
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.
Morris pulled out a line and attached it to the lug, then grabbed Bart and swam with him to a similar lug ten yards aft of the escape-trunk hatch and set flush into the deck.
The smell of the dream-inducing herbs she had brought in, cinquefoil, agrimony, angelica, and star anise, was beginning to make her head swim.
A fat old Albacore shark swam past us, blotched and piebald like a pig, but he paid us no attention and I lowered the spear as he drifted away into the hazy distance.
There the true gods led him to the subterranean pool where eyeless, albescent fish swam around the clutch of huge eggs, as hard as the finest armor, left there countless centuries past.
They also went for an occasional swim in the cove, where they played with David and she told him all the history of the Ama and of Kuro and expertly parried all his questions about the world outside the island.
She was at it all week for more than eight hours a day, until her back and neck ached, and ragged curls of unfurling ampersands swam across her vision.
They pushed the boat out into the channel and as their feet lost the bottom they began to swim and steered her for the anchored frigate.
The Murgos simply turned, fled south to the banks of the River Arend on the east side of the city, and tried to swim across.
Each man knew the correct azimuth to swim to, and with two men in each team reading the lighted devices, they should be able to rendezvous somewhere near the right spot.
He bagged some urchins and sea cucumbers, but the crabs were elusive, and when he swam along the edge of the bay with his knife unsheathed to pry off the purple scallops, fierce currents threatened to drag him against the rocks.
Britannia and Jake were getting into their car when Beyke swam into the hall, a filmy wrap over her dress.
Pendragon to slide the bikini bottoms off her hips while her hands pushed his swim trunks over his rising shaft and down his legs until the material dropped to the floor and he stepped out of it.
Even as Bink watched, one of the lakes expanded slightly, making itself seem cooler and deeper, a better place for a swim.
He came shooting right back up but now had to swim to catch the Blimp, and swimming with ten feet of rope and a boomerang was not easy.