swimming event
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- noun
- /ˈswɪmɪŋ ɪˈvɛnt/
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competencia de natación
- Some 11,000 people filled the stands as the heats of the men's 400-meter individual medley, the Games' first swimming event, hit the water.
Examples
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Kate, who attended many tennis matches at Wimbledon, will be around for gymnastics and synchronized swimming events.
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Conversely, one might enjoy competitive success (winning a swimming event) without attaining a desired level of competence (surpassing a previous best time by five seconds).
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As you can see above, I shot both swimming events and diving events.
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As in real swimming events, many challenges exist for local, state, and national aquatic health programs.
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The swimming event started at 7:15 a.m., with a just under a mile swim in the 71-degree waters of Long Island Sound.
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"Traveling to an open water swimming event opens up several doors to a fulfilling life: a challenging event to test oneself, knowledge of different cultures, and beginning and rekindling relationships with other adventurous people."
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A demographic questionnaire inquired about participants' age, gender, class standing, number of years swimming competitively, number of months and/or years competing for their current coach, and ratings of perceived importance of their swimming event to the individual and to the team.
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The age-group swimming event will feature freestyle competition for ages 12 and under.
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Four years later, East Germany's women won 11 of 13 swimming events.
Synonyms
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An event where swimmers from different teams race each other
An event where swimmers race for their team or club
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a competition in which people or teams race or perform in swimming' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'swimming' (the activity/sport) with 'event' (an occurrence/competition). This straightforward noun-noun composition follows common English patterns and is cross-linguistically obvious, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The noun swimming event comes from the simple picture of a planned event at a pool or river where people are swimming and racing each other. So, the phrase today means 'a competition in which people or teams race or perform in swimming'.