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.
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  • 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.
  • They just can't help spending our money on receptions for anything from the synchronised swimming team to the world-acclaimed left-handed marlies champions.
  • Once upon a time, I was a camp counselor in scenic New Hampshire, where I taught swimming. 'America's Next Top Model' recap: Commercial success | EW.com
  • There are two large rooms that can be used for social gatherings equipped with a TV and a beamer and screen, plus a dining room and a well-furnished kitchen next to the swimming pool. Weekly
  • Today he's happily munching a cheese sandwich and talking about wild swimming. Times, Sunday Times
  • Siu said the maximum actual use instead of the maximum capacity of swimming pools was used to decide the number of lifeguards deployed.
  • Swimming is the most popular water sport.
  • To speak generally, if we take all animals which change their locality, some by swimming, others by flying, others by walking, we find in these the two sexes, not only in the sanguinea but also in some of the bloodless animals; and this applies in the case of the latter sometimes to the whole class, as the cephalopoda and crustacea, but in the class of insects only to the majority. On the Generation of Animals
  • Swimming pools usually come under 'leisure centres' in the telephone directory.
  • Swimming with seals or sea lions is undoubtedly the most fun you can have with a wild animal. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hydrotherapy - relaxed swimming and flotation decrease the energy required in everyday life just to support the body weight, allowing the diversion of this energy to recovery.
  • I used to go swimming, play paddleball and all kinds of little games at the gym, but no more.
  • This enables great whites to detect a heart beat of prey buried in sand from a faint electrical field or the action of a gill or a swimming muscle of another animal. Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Great White Sharks
  • The swimming pool was decorated with fairy lights and floating candles and a table for the intimate party of 12 was set outside.
  • One of the city's oldest pools, the Yeoville swimming pool, has received a sparkling, multi-toned blue mosaic facelift.
  • We were given the run of a sauna (which had a tea room) and access to a swimming pool for three hours, for the princely sum of $25.
  • From the tastefully appointed mosaic inlays and concaved walls adorned with statues and his paintings, the mosaic swimming pool and Japanese garden with plenty of creature comforts, make for unforgettable ambiance. San Antonio
  • He made our swimming mascot the 'ucker, which was supposed to be a colloquial way of saying "sucker," a trash fish, but was really so we could do our team cheer, "Be tough, be tough, be tough 'uckers" loudly in mixed company. Instead of Doing My Lesson Plan, I Idly Toondoo
  • There is a shortage of Olympic-size pools and most of these are run on commercial lines, so British swimming cannot afford priority access.
  • All seemed to be going swimmingly - the satellite signal was nice and strong, the ISDN line connected with no problem, we were ready to broadcast.
  • As diatoms collect on the ocean floor and are buried deeper and deeper, they are compressed and changed from a form known as diatomite, which is used in swimming pool filters, to opal.
  • I remember my ex-girlfriend was having a stressful day teaching swimming until 10pm. The Sun
  • Or should we take the local bus and go into town, hit the beach for sunbathing, swimming, snorkelling or windsurfing?
  • It all came swimming back to her, like a lazy river of memories.
  • Walking and swimming are excellent for releasing tension.
  • One of my friend told me that he fell down in swimming pool accidentally, and unable to swim. Goodbye Old Friend. R.I.P. Rajeev Motwani
  • Campaigners hope this will lead to a revival of river swimming clubs. Times, Sunday Times
  • I can almost hear my heart beat in time with their intense swimming strokes.
  • Style's fashion cupboard and my wardrobe are swimming in suede at the moment. Times, Sunday Times
  • By 4.30 I was cruising round Seymour swimming pool, parking on the blind side as far as Sedgeley House was concerned.
  • As a youngster growing up a small Mississippi town, Bob Dudley was a swimming prodigy with one of the speediest backstrokes in the state. New BP boss Bob Dudley 'doesn't need to fake his empathy for the Gulf coast'
  • I don't think I've ever seen so many little puffers washed up, or even just swimming around, in that part of the beach before.
  • And if I have to sit wearing a swimming cap covered in electrodes to show willing, OK, so I will.
  • These included arts and crafts, swimming, knock out competitions, a trip to the cinema, drama, sports, bowling and a day trip out of town.
  • If a moffie can go to a club, why can't a moffie also go to the swimming pool," said Pamela Holland. IOL: News
  • From rowing lake and canoe rapids to velodrome and swimming pool, the cheers of frenzied spectators have been spine-tingling. The Sun
  • Gadwalls forage mainly while swimming, either taking items from the surface or dabbling in shallow water, or diving, which they are more likely to do than most other dabblers.
  • The large garden around the swimming pool shone in the glimmering light of many multicolored candles.
  • His wife of twenty-two years is sitting catty-corner to him in a turquoise T-shirt with a tropical fish swimming across her chest; but her slim ankles are demurely crossed, the resting pose of one of those fifties starlets who swished around on-screen in full skirts, sheer hose, and kitten heels. THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
  • They can see hooks hanging out from the baitfish in clear water and they'll spook easily if they can see the bait isn't swimming just right.
  • He dived in and started swimming to the other side but within a few inches of reaching the far bank was pulled downstream by the fast-flowing current.
  • However, I also noticed that Speedos and swimming briefs are extremely popular on the beaches of Europe.
  • The big boy ducked all the small boys in the swimming pool.
  • A sports science and psychology building would be built on the site of the existing swimming pool, health centre and squash courts, with a third building behind.
  • It asked them to choose between boardshorts and swimming briefs, more commonly known as budgie smugglers. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • He had a really light build, perfect for track and swimming, which were his two favorite sports.
  • Swimming in lane four is the weapon of mass destruction that donkey-licked the opposition in the 2011 World Championships.
  • It's just that its call is the harbinger of spring - a signal to start chucking chlorine into the swimming pool.
  • There are five swimming pools, eight restaurants and numerous boutique shops. Times, Sunday Times
  • When something like a black cloud passed among them, she knew that it was either a whale swimming over her head, or a ship with many people: they certainly did not think that a pretty little sea-maid was standing down below stretching up her white hands towards the keel of their ship. The Little Sea-Maid
  • Built in Andalusian style, this boasts an institute of thalassotherapy equipped with saunas, swimming pools and massage rooms.
  • Swimming regularly betters the functioning of the heart and lungs.
  • The broadness of the portunid sternum allows the appendages to project well beyond the lateral margins of the carapace and is an adaptation to the swimming habit which most portunids exhibit.
  • The Norwegian Magosphaera planula, swimming about by means of the lashes or cilia at its surface. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
  • How can they be swimming lifetime bests so late in the game?
  • If a Romney drowns in a river, they were probably trying to commit suicide, but changed their minds, and then irrationally swam upstream, thinking they would be saved because they'd had this stupid expression drummed into their heads that swimming upstream was a good thing to do, even though it's not. "What the Hell is Mitt Romney Talking About?"
  • She is swimming lengths in the club pool and walking as much as she can rather than grabbing lifts.
  • About the time of hibernation a few tunnies or other hibernating fishes are caught while swimming about, in particularly warm localities and in exceptionally fine weather, or on nights of full moon; for the fishes are induced (by the warmth or the light) to emerge for a while from their lair in quest of food. The History of Animals
  • You can write about swimming, skiing, or anything else you enjoy doing.
  • They can spend their time here relaxing, walking, sunbathing, swimming and scuba diving.
  • A large shoal of pollack can often be seen swimming above the engine.
  • Infinity pools (where the edges overflow with water) blur the boundary between swimming pool and decorative water feature.
  • Sportsmen and women took part in a total of 10 sports which ranged from archery to snooker and rifle shooting to swimming.
  • Guests have complimentary access to a gym, swimming pool and health club. The Sun
  • She has had a number of different jobs, ranging from chef to swimming instructor.
  • While afternoons at the camp will involve familiar activities such as canoeing and swimmingChild Abuse Alert
  • Or you could just gaze at the view from the window of your indoor swimming pool. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are only 60 swimming pools in the entire country.
  • A range of events featuring freestyle, butterfly, sidestroke, backstroke and medley races saw the kids battle for supremacy as to who would be the king and queen of the pool in their age groups and for their swimming club.
  • People were having fun in the pool, swimming or just splashing around.
  • The crowd enjoyed a diving display before the swimming races.
  • We did dinghy drill in the harbour and this usually finished with us swimming around in the beautifully clear waters of this sheltered haven.
  • The swimming pool is filled up with mud.
  • But we did compete in sack races, running races, egg-and-spoon races, swimming races, whatever.
  • We take our bikes and we go swimming. The Sun
  • Molly won a bronze medal in the 200 meter backstroke, swimming a lifetime best of 2:16.42.
  • I wouldn't hinder your work,I'm going swimming right now.
  • According to the plan, the water supply to fountains, swimming pools or for street cleaning was cut.
  • He took up swimming and diving, and joined a marching band, but the lure of the stage beckoned.
  • The forestry here, at the back of the swimming pool, will be cleared of soft woods leaving the native hard woods in place and will provide an amenity area for visitors and locals.
  • There was a car on the bottom of a large body of water and fish were swimming around it.
  • The air temperature inside the largest natatorium ever built for swimming is a constant 79 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Chlorinated pools are to swimming what decaff is to breakfast - there's just no kick. Times, Sunday Times
  • We could see fish swimming just below the surface.
  • But modern-day swimming pool chutes and ponies captured the imagination and attention of the youngsters.
  • Under his handling, many boys became excellent swimming players.
  • E. M. is going swimmingly. The Sun
  • Regional and temporal variation in bending moments and power production have also been predicted to occur during steady undulatory swimming in fish.
  • Walking hand in hand, we passed several other people on roller skates, in bikinis and swimming trunks, with shopping bags in their hands and all.
  • It was largely unnoticed until shed and swimming pool owners began to receive hefty bills. Times, Sunday Times
  • My notebook reminds me of the scene: a dabchick swimming across the mere with a brood of tiny young all aboard and peeping from under the parent's wings.
  • We loved to go swimming in the lagoon.
  • Cut down the risk by not swimming near harbours or places where locals do their washing, and always towel down vigorously. Times, Sunday Times
  • Got the swimming goggles and cap and the running gear and the weights and the special trainers and the yoga mat and still... no exercise. Times, Sunday Times
  • If we go swimming together I do six lengths to her twelve.
  • The only Italian food we'd ever heard about was a bowl of spaghetti swimming in tomato sauce.
  • Eliza pitched forward, her head swimming, her vision blurring.
  • I have no social plans for this weekend, I'm eating more simply, I got lots of sleep last night and so that just leaves minding my manners and everything should go swimmingly.
  • President Elect Obama tells us after over five years and thousands of mistakes and lies, the occupation of Iraq is going so "swimmingly" (the "surge" worked myth) that we can afford to send troops from there to the new righteous war, Afghanistan. Warfare Reform
  • The game takes place in a swimming pool with players wearing snorkels, masks and fins.
  • Of course, lidos weren't your average swimming pool.
  • He said a swimming pool, a tennis court and an indoor stadium would be constructed at the site.
  • There is planning consent for a swimming pool, guest house and tennis court on the adjacent land. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was wearing a swimming costume with bandages binding her chest and a hat to disguise her hair. The Sun
  • They also go through a second larval stage called the veliger stage, which is also a free-swimming stage. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Tourism has been limited, with the obvious activity of swimming restricted by strong coastal currents in the area.
  • There was a kind of a mosh pit occurring in the much smaller, much shallower kidney-shaped swimming pool to our right.
  • It was like listening to somebody trying to play a trombone at the bottom of a swimming pool, and meantime some bosthoon in black tights is skipping around the fountain tossing things into it.
  • Nor is it merely the fact that they are swimming against the tide of Modernism with its utopian sense of inevitability and its flagship aesthetic of reductive minimalism.
  • Disturbances can occur while a fish is at rest, when swimming forwards and backwards, and during maneuvers while moving in either direction.
  • There is a great interest in the swimming competition, which is highly commendable.
  • Although the frigatebird spends most of its life at sea, it is rarely seen swimming. Trinidade-Martin Vaz Islands tropical forests
  • If the owner's froideur doesn't deter you, this 10-room semi-troglodyte hotel overlooking the vineyards of Saumur-Champigny has a lot to offer: a charming site; thematically decorated rooms; and, above all, a dramatic heated swimming pool carved into the rock of its own troglodyte cave. Soul Food
  • The advert featured a dolphin swimming around a goldfish bowl.
  • The swimming pool is set well down below a high retaining wall and surrounded by cypress hedges. The Education of a Gardener
  • Today he's happily munching a cheese sandwich and talking about wild swimming. Times, Sunday Times
  • Regular swimming can also double lung capacity over time. The Sun
  • Children that may not excel at other sports can really shine at swimming.
  • These attractive tetras make a good, peaceful community fish if the aquarium has dense vegetation with open water for swimming.
  • The duathlon is a non-swimming event and begins with a 1. 5km walk/run on Lake Hayes Track, following the triathlon's 15km biking section and 5km walk/run to the finish. ScreenTalk
  • For the occasion, part of a campaign to prevent child drownings by promoting swimming lessons, he made a splash in red boardies with a design of pink hibiscus topped with a blue long-sleeved rashie. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • Alice joined the swimming club.
  • The backdrop to this story of three 15-year-olds whose lives and desires collide is the world of synchronised swimming. Times, Sunday Times
  • At its side is a sheltered cove, just made for relaxing and swimming.
  • The body of an echiuran lacks annelid-type segmentation, but the distinctive free-swimming trochophore larval stages of echiurans and polychaetes are very similar.
  • He conducts an awkward interview in a swimming pool with increasing buoyancy issues. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm one of those people that think good chili should have at least a little grease swimming on top of it.
  • It's great fun while you're still in swimming armbands and short trousers.
  • There were other fish swimming around among the dead sprat so there was nothing wrong with the quality of the water.
  • There are three vegetarian meals daily and two yoga classes plus an open-air swimming pool on site and a range of massage treatments available. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a lush tropical garden, swimming pool and a small private beach.
  • We’re all supposed to take inspiration from Sada Jacobson, who I’m told is the world’s number-one female fencer, which is kind of like being the world’s number-one Real World/Road Rules Challenge participant.1 Everyone is going to be ecstatic about the prospect of Michael Phelps winning as many as eight gold medals in swimming, even though I have yet to find a single person who knows who Michael Phelps is. Chuck Klosterman on Sports
  • Unlike walking and other motions, swimming is not a natural activity for the human body.
  • This muscle is particularly used in swimming and backhand in racket sports. Muscle Management
  • Activities available include squash, archery and swimming to name but a few.
  • Even the fish appeared to be experiencing difficulties swimming against the current; and the site was abuzz in action, as jacks, snappers and groupers busily swarmed about.
  • Recently spotted swimming in a burkini, she has said that she has no intention of losing weight. Times, Sunday Times
  • Take any sport basketball, ice hockey, swimming or whatever.
  • This weather would dampen anyone's enthusiasm for swimming.
  • Our new apartment complex has a tennis court, swimming pool, playground - the whole nine yards.
  • All told, this was a lachrymose week, though perversely if the greatest music provokes a lump in your throat you know it's all going swimmingly. Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires; La traviata – review
  • Austin went on to say that his father was always there for his family, whether it was a school play, a football match or a swimming gala.
  • He is capable of swimming a length and surface diving, and loves the water.
  • Jumping, running, swimming, wrestling, and other sports activities are recreation for boys and young adults.
  • Community Club and supporting a gym, billiard room , table tennis room , cafeteria, laundry room , reading room , swimming pool, restaurant, beauty salon.
  • She loves all sports, especially swimming.
  • The year 1956 was momentous for British backstroke swimming. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wear protective footwear in public swimming pools, or health clubs. Stay Well This Winter
  • In 2007, Greg Parks was prepping his kids for the Florida state test, but in what he calls an accidental peek at the test, the middle-school math teacher noticed a troubling choice of words: Instead of asking kids about the volume of a can — the example he and the textbooks had been using — the test asked about the volume of a swimming pool. For teachers, many ways and reasons to cheat on tests
  • Provision has also been made for changing rooms and for a plant room for the swimming pool, a wrap-around deck, new entrance gates, a biocycle waste unit and a sump to accommodate the swimming pool overflow.
  • 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.
  • ‘It will be their summer in August, but we've been told to take fleeces as well as swimming costumes, and all in a small rucksack,’ she said.
  • It's the ideal setting for swimming and sunbathing in this protected natural park. Times, Sunday Times
  • If there is a sea running, the beach may be a bit rough for swimming.
  • Swimming is my favorite pastime.
  • Synchronised swimming; good for the lungs. Times, Sunday Times
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  • Every evening there were activities like drama, art, swimming, sports or lectures.
  • After the egg is fertilized it becomes a blastula, which is free swimming. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • The women help each other tie light tags to their swimming costumes for visibility. Times, Sunday Times
  • Merely swimming harder will lower your clock time but raise your stroke count, effectively making all your gains a wash.
  • I was too weak to swim properly but managed to make a little headway swimming across the current. Times, Sunday Times
  • The swimming pool was opened to the public on July 1.
  • You can chase bulls or hang around the horse paddock - the one that's been converted into a great swimming pool. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sports Minister John O'Donoghue has accepted a proposal to build Athy's new swimming pool on a green field site.
  • The swimming team's in training for the Olympics.
  • Avoid swimming in areas where swimmer's itch is a known problem.
  • It comes hot on the heels of a £1.5 million investment at the hotel to provide a leisure facility, including swimming pool, whirlpool, large gym and sauna.
  • During the day we went swimming and sunbathing to recoup our strength.
  • He's perfectly happy to stand like a Michelin man in the local swimming baths, next to a bronzed, life-guard type.
  • There are swimming pools, tennis courts, billiard tables and a basketball court. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the back garden is a swimming pool and a trampoline. The Sun
  • A graduated program of swimming and stationary bicycling, along with isometric, isotonic, and eccentric strengthening in the later stages is prescribed.
  • The hotel offers a superbly equipped Fitness Center, including large swimming pool, sauna and steam bath.
  • Swimming is good exercise.
  • Developments vary from apartment blocks and hotels to modern luxury complexes with swimming pools, solariums, restaurants and a host of other facilities.
  • This was a considerable feat of training, as the horse suffered a setback last month and had been restricted to swimming until a fortnight ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then in 1996 the Pats changed their logo to something best described as a nationalistic fish swimming upstream. NY Daily News
  • On Tuesday, we used 27.4 megalitres of water - about 400,000 litres, or 7 family swimming pools, under target.
  • There were stables and linhays to the rear, landscaped gardens and, to cater for the most popular gentleman's sport of the day, a small bowling green was created on the site of the current swimming pool.
  • Not only were these people swimming with about two dozen manatees, but they were also rubbing the manatees' bellies and backs.
  • There were several floatation-boards scattered along the front edge of the swimming pool.
  • After swimming for an hour, he finally gained the shore.
  • The swimming pool drains very slowly.
  • Swimming often includes porpoising (repeatedly breaking the water's surface with enough momentum to lift the bird into the air for about one meter.)
  • The farmhouse is split into three fully self-contained and furnished apartments, and has access to a swimming pool, barbecue, deck chairs and sun umbrellas.
  • There's no better way to get turned on, save for swimming I guess ... or like tennis, yayness. Rouflaquette Diary Entry
  • There are certain acceptable levels of enterococci, the bacteria found in the poop of humans and warm-blooded animals, and when those levels are exceeded, that's when you see the "no swimming" warnings go up. That repulsive unflushed toilet? Better to swim in it than in the Chesapeake Bay
  • The free-swimming larva settles and undergoes metamorphosis into a juvenile sponge.
  • Weather permitting, try the sundeck and swimming pool or on-deck games. The Sun
  • They receive coaching and training and also act as mentors to rising swimming stars. The Sun

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