swimming
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- noun
- /ˈswɪmɪŋ/
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- Swimming, walking, and cycling are all recommended forms of exercise for maintaining joint health.
- swimming pool
And he's like all about athletics and swimming and sports right now.
- And he's like all about athletics and swimming and sports right now.
- And what's interesting about swimming is it's not a strength sport.
- In Lejeune Hall is the swimming facility and the wrestling room.
- Great tennis or swimming, swimming great which event?
- It even sounds silly, but in swimming, your throat size matters.
Examples
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All sharks need to keep swimming in order to breathe.
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This allows them to continue swimming and breathing while snoozing.
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And what's interesting about swimming is it's not a strength sport.
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'Cause there were signs all over this sand that said, "No Swimming."
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Swimming, perhaps more than many other sports, is highly demanding of time and energy.
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Congratulations, your girls just joined the Women's Swimming Association.
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Swimming, in general, and success, in particular, were viewed as priorities for the higher skilled group.
Academic text (1996) -
Swimming performance was expressed as a deviation from an individual's best time measured in seconds.
Academic text (1992) -
The State Swimming Pool and Bathing Beach Code specifies the water quality requirements for licensed bathing beaches in Illinois.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
To move the body through water using arms and legs as a sport or skill
Compounds
A sea crab with back legs flat like paddles that help it swim in shallow coastal water
How Vigorous
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Swimming comes from the old verb swim, which means 'to move through water'. Think of a person using their arms and legs like a fish, and you have the image of swimming as the activity of moving through water.