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swimming
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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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.
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To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.]
[Streams] that swim full of small fishes.
--Chaucer.
Swimming \Swim"ming\, n. The act of one who swims.
Swimming \Swim"ming\, a. [From Swim to be dizzy.] Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.
Swimming \Swim"ming\, n.
Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head.
--Dryden.
Swimming \Swim"ming\, a.
That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.
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Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.
Swimming bell (Zo["o]l.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora.
Swimming crab (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of marine crabs, as those of the family Protunid[ae], which have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs flattened so as to serve as fins.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "act of propelling the body through water," verbal noun from swim (v.). Swimming hole is from 1855, American English; swimming pool is from 1881.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The action of the verb "to swim". 2 The activity of moving oneself through water using one's arms and legs while buoy up by the water, carried out by humans for amusement, exercise, sport or entertainment. vb. (present participle of swim English)
WordNet
n. the act of swimming [syn: swim]
See swim
Wikipedia
Swimming may refer to:
Swimming is a 2000 film starring Lauren Ambrose in one of her early film works as Francine "Frankie" Wheeler. The movie was directed by Robert J. Siegel.
Swimming is the fourth full-length album by New York-based indie rock band French Kicks. Their first self-produced album, Swimming is marked by a more stripped-down sound than is found on their previous albums. Explaining the recording process, guitarist Josh Wise said that the band "used a lot of first and second takes and tried to preserve a sense of immediacy and discovery that comes from putting things down before you really have a chance to think too hard." It was released on March 31, 2008, receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews.
Swimming is an individual or team sport and activity. Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley. In addition to these individual events, Olympic swimmers also participate in relays. Swimmers can also compete in open-water events (i.e. swimming in the Ocean).
Swimming is an art rock band formed in Nottingham, UK known for their genre-straddling output that unites a fluid and experimental sonic approach into a sound which is uniformly uplifting. They have releases on their own Colourschool Records, EVR Records and are currently signed to Tummy Touch Records
Swimming is the debut studio album by Belgian post-punk band The Names, released in 1982 by record label Les Disques du Crépuscule. It was produced by Martin Hannett.
Usage examples of "swimming".
Finning itself into a frenzy, the afanc began swimming in circles above the group.
When Amsel was baptized and the birds gave the first sign, Hedwig Lau had still been swimming in amniotic fluid.
Special Operations volunteers endured, everyone in the Ampersand group was grateful for the program of calisthenics, combat sports, and Swimming that Major Warren had imposed during the months at Gatehouse.
He embargoed the export of all agricultural produce, except olive oil, in which Athens was swimming, arguing that the big landowners could not sell their produce in richer markets while fellow Athenians went hungry.
As far as the eye could reach the bushveld rolled its scrub like the scrawled foliage a child draws on a slate, with here and there a baobab swimming unsteadily in the glare.
It was a fine-grained gray stone with two fossil belemnites swimming across its surface, like pale comets.
She plucked her tiny microphone off her bikini top and tossed it into the swimming pool.
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.
She had been warned by Bly that this area was hostile to mermaids of her markings, and she decided to forgo any chance at ocean swimming for now.
When I got to the Boody place, I stepped over the chain and went around to the side of the house opposite the swimming pool, and made my way to the Garcia wall through the Boody grounds.
I sped through an area of moonlight, and crouched beyond the swimming pool, a layout almost identical to the Boody construction, near the building where the servants would be housed.
I got to the Boody place, I stepped over the chain and went around to the side of the house opposite the swimming pool, and made my way to the Garcia wall through the Boody grounds.
Those minutes in the Marauia, swimming in the current and hearing the giant caiman thrashing and lunging about in the water behind him, had been some of the longest in his life.
At Trouville, for instance, they had laid in dozens of the brilliant rubber casquettes he liked to wear when he went swimming.
Scroll-wise coiled forwards beneath the body, and then rapidly sprung backwards, it is this which gives that singular darting, leaping motion to the monster when furiously swimming.