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swimming

[ UK /swˈɪmɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈswɪmɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. filled or brimming with tears
    swimming eyes
    sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid
  2. applied to a fish depicted horizontally
NOUN
  1. the act of swimming
    it was the swimming they enjoyed most
    they took a short swim in the pool

How To Use swimming In A Sentence

  • 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..."
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • His head's still swimming so he holds on tight to her waist so he doesn't fall.
  • That demands strong swimming skills and hearty lungs besides.
  • She goes swimming every morning before breakfast. What you wear for this activity is usually called a swimming costume in BrE and a bathing suit in AmE.
  • a big fish was swimming in the tank
  • His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
  • It is autumn and they are pumping water out of the swimming pool.
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