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swim⋅ming

  [swim-ing]
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–noun
1. the act of a person or thing that swims.
2. the skill or technique of a person who swims.
3. the sport of swimming.
–adjective
4. pertaining to, characterized by, or capable of swimming.
5. used in or for swimming: swimming trunks.
6. immersed in or overflowing with water or some other liquid.
7. dizzy or giddy: a swimming head.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE swimmende (adj.). See swim, -ing 2 , -ing 1

Related forms:
swim⋅ming⋅ness, noun

swim

  [swim] ,verb, swam, swum, swim⋅ming, noun
–verb (used without object)
1. to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
2. to float on the surface of water or some other liquid.
3. to move, rest, or be suspended in air as if swimming in water.
4. to move, glide, or go smoothly over a surface.
5. to be immersed or steeped in or overflowing or flooded with a liquid: eyes swimming with tears.
6. to be dizzy or giddy; seem to whirl: My head began to swim.
–verb (used with object)
7. to move along in or cross (a body of water) by swimming: to swim a lake.
8. to perform (a particular stroke) in swimming: to swim a sidestroke.
9. to cause to swim or float, as on a stream.
10. to furnish with sufficient water to swim or float.
–noun
11. an act, instance, or period of swimming.
12. a motion as of swimming; a smooth, gliding movement.
—Idiom
13. in the swim, alert to or actively engaged in events; in the thick of things: Despite her age, she is still in the swim.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME swimmen, OE swimman; c. D zwemmen, G schwimmen, ON svimma

Related forms:
swim⋅ma⋅ble, adjective
swimmer, noun
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swim   (swĭm)   
v.   swam (swām), swum (swŭm), swim·ming, swims

v.   intr.
  1. To move through water by means of the limbs, fins, or tail.
  2. To move as though gliding through water.
  3. To float on water or another liquid.
    1. To be covered or flooded with or as if with a liquid: chicken swimming in gravy.
    2. To possess a superfluity; abound: After winning the lottery, she was swimming in money.
  5. To experience a floating or giddy sensation; be dizzy: "his brain still swimming with the effects of the last night's champagne" (Robert Smith Surtees).
  6. To appear to spin or reel lazily: The room swam before my eyes.
v.   tr.
  1. To move through or across (a body of water) by swimming: She swam the channel.
  2. To execute (a particular stroke) in swimming.
  3. To cause to swim or float.
n.  
    1. The act of swimming.
    2. A period of time spent swimming.
  2. A gliding motion.
  3. A state of dizziness.
  4. An area, as of a river, abounding in fish.
adj.  Of, relating to, or used for swimming: a swim mask.

[Middle English swimmen, from Old English swimman.]
swim'ma·ble adj., swim'mer n.
swim·ming   (swĭm'ĭng)   
n.  The act, sport, or technique of one that swims.
adj.  
  1. Relating to or used in swimming.
  2. Capable of swimming: swimming insects.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Swimming

Swim"ming\, a. 1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.

2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.

Swimming bell (Zo["o]l.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora.

Swimming crab (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of marine crabs, as those of the family Protunid[ae], which have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs flattened so as to serve as fins.

Swimming

Swim"ming\, n. The act of one who swims.

Swimming

Swim"ming\, a. [From Swim to be dizzy.] Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.

Swimming

Swim"ming\, n. Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. --Dryden.
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Language Translation for : swimming
Spanish: nadando, flotando,
German: schwimmend,
Japanese: いっぱいついた
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