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Overview of noun swimming

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")


Overview of verb swim

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")


Overview of adj swimming

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)