[
UK
/swˈɪmɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈswɪmɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈswɪmɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
filled or brimming with tears
swimming eyes
sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid - applied to a fish depicted horizontally
NOUN
-
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.