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US
/ˈswɪm/
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[ UK /swˈɪm/ ]
[ UK /swˈɪm/ ]
VERB
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
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travel through water
We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore
a big fish was swimming in the tank -
move as if gliding through water
this snake swims through the soil where it lives -
be dizzy or giddy
my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne -
be covered with or submerged in a liquid
the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy
NOUN
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the act of swimming
it was the swimming they enjoyed most
they took a short swim in the pool
How To Use swim In A Sentence
- Baby and Infant Products, Flap Hats, Swim Diapers, Swimwear Outwear, Sleeping Bags.
- I don't like swimming in the ocean that much either because the fact that all those fish have pinched a loave in there and it makes me a little squeezy. "It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings..."
- There's no massive hills and the swim won't be rough. Times, Sunday Times
- I left my swimming things at home.
- The recent Australian National Championships and Olympic swimming trials give a strange story to the world of swimming.
- I'm going for a swim to cool down.
- Erna Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow.
- They are popular with scuba divers but you can just swim or snorkel. The Sun
- The 27-year-old, who is in training for next summer's Olympic Games, began his swimming career at the Longsight baths by competing in galas there as a schoolboy.
- In my scenario, the Senator tells the drowning person that it was the flailing non-swimmer's fault for falling in and not learning how to swim, not the Senator's doing, just before the erratic splasher goes under the surface for the last time. Norman Cressy: Musings II