Crossword clues for swum
swum
- Like some triathlon segments
- Like one third of a triathlon
- Having dog-paddled
- Has done some laps
- Has done laps in the pool
- Had competed in a pool
- Done laps in a pool
- What Spitz has done
- What Katie Ledecky has done expertly
- Took a dip (I can never believe this is actually a word)
- Taken a dip
- Splashed through the pool
- Past participle for Michael Phelps
- Like the start of a triathlon
- Like the first part of a triathlon
- Like lapsin the pool
- Like a butterfly in water?
- Having done laps
- Had done laps in water
- Had competed in aquatic sports
- Had competed at a meet
- Done the backstroke, e.g
- Done laps, perhaps
- Done laps
- Crawled in water
- Having dogpaddled
- Done laps in the pool
- Gone across a pool
- Like laps in a pool
- Like the Florida Straits, rarely
- Used strokes
- Like the English Channel for the first time in 1875
- Like some Olympic races
- Done some strokes
- Like one leg of a triathlon
- Natatory word
- (Has) moved through water
- What Spitz has done well
- Crossed by swimming
- Did the butterfly
- Did laps, perhaps
- Did laps in a pool
- Like many laps
- Enjoyed the sound, say
- What Michael Phelps has done well
- What Mark Spitz has done well
- Moved through water
- Moved in water
- Like the first leg of a triathlon
- Like the beginning of triathlons
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.
--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.
Swum \Swum\, imp. & p. p. of Swim.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past participle and sometimes past tense of swim (v.).
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (past participle of swim English) 2 (context archaic English) (en-simple past of: swim)
WordNet
See swim
Usage examples of "swum".
Ovrth Gert burst out of the stairwell, both panting like they had swum ten miles upstream.
An outlet led directly to the river, and large trout and river-dwelling salmon had swum upstream into the lake.
He, too, had swum the mighty river, and then had carried Ayla up the slope and set up the tent.
Ayla had often bathed or swum in the cold waters of rivers, streams, and pools, even water so cold she broke through a film of ice, and she had washed with water warmed by a fire, but she had never stepped into hot water before.
They must have tipped the canoe trying to get her into it and had probably swum in, using the capsized canoe as a float to help them bring Dorothy.
He feels anemones and urchins and realizes with sudden sadness that this is the first time he has swum close enough to the seabed to sense its life, and it is almost certainly the last, and it is too dark to see.
He has never swum so deep before, but he follows the enormous chain links as far down as he can go, steeling himself, acclimatizing as the pressure wraps him tight.
Even the seawyrms had not been able to continue pulling their now misbehaving chariot ships, and they had swum back with the fleet, back out of the Empty Ocean.
The news had severely rattled Bewcastle, though, he concluded when he returned to the house with Morgan early in the afternoon, having swum in the lake himself while she painted.
He had remembered the stretch of river she had pointed out to him as the secluded place where she and Percy had sometimes swum in the summers.
After they had swum some distance he turned onto his back to return the way they had come, and she did likewise.
It was some minutes since Modesty and Willie had swum past him along the length of the pool.
She thought the entrance through which she had swum was likely tall enough that even at high tide she would have been able to swim out, but she was happy to have Mr.
She was embarrassed to be talking about this with him, which seemed silly after she had so freely swum half-naked before him, and let him put his mouth to her breast.
You could have swum to the shore, to the little beach on the further side of the rock, you could have gone up to the bathing cabins from there and so on up the steps to the top terrace and to her room.