Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
swimming costume
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I pull on my swimming costume, leaving shoes behind, picking up a towel.
▪ I put on my swimming costume and shorts and opened the caravan door.
▪ She looks blummin beautiful in that swimming costume.
Wiktionary
swimming costume
n. (context British English) the garments that one wears when bathing in the sea or a swimming pool, especially the one-piece garment worn by women and girls.
WordNet
swimming costume
n. tight fitting garment worn for swimming [syn: swimsuit, bathing suit, bathing costume]
Usage examples of "swimming costume".
A suit of steel chain-mail isn't the best swimming costume in the world, I noticed.
She hadn't worn this particular swimming costume for him as yet and it was scandalously brief.
They had wasted no time in getting into swimming costume, and Bob was already dashing toward the surf, ahead of the rest, his winter-bleached skin gleaming in odd contrast to the well-tanned hides of his young friends.
She wore some flimsy swimming costume which was more decoration than concealment.