SkyfireDict

swimming   (TTS Sound)

The noun swimming has 1 sense

• swimming, swim -- (the act of swimming; "it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool")

The verb swim has 5 senses

• swim -- (travel through water; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank")


• float, swim -- (be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom)


• swim -- (be dizzy or giddy; "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne")


• swim, drown -- (be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy")


• swim -- (move as if gliding through water; "this snake swims through the soil where it lives")

The adj swimming has 2 senses

• liquid, swimming -- (filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid")


• naiant, swimming -- (applied to a fish depicted horizontally)