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SWIMMING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of swimming
Example:
they took a short swim in the pool
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("swimming" is a kind of...):
aquatics; water sport (sports that involve bodies of water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "swimming"):
bathe (the act of swimming for pleasure or recreation)
skinny-dip (a naked swim)
dip; plunge (a brief swim in water)
dive; diving (a headlong plunge into water)
floating; natation (the act of someone who floats on the water)
skin-dive; skin diving (underwater swimming without any more breathing equipment than a snorkel)
Derivation:
swim (travel through water)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Applied to a fish depicted horizontally
Synonyms:
naiant; swimming
Classified under:
Similar:
horizontal (parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line)
Domain category:
heraldry (the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Filled or brimming with tears
Example:
sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid
Synonyms:
liquid; swimming
Classified under:
Similar:
tearful (filled with or marked by tears)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb swim
Context examples:
Like many other pack hounds, the feet are webbed for swimming.
(Otterhound, NCI Thesaurus)
Preschoolers are most likely to drown in a swimming pool.
(Drowning, NIH)
Pisces rules water, and although some love swimming along with water sports, others avoid water like the plague.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Look also at the innumerable fish that are swimming in the clear waters, where we can distinguish every pebble that lies at the bottom.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
You can also get the infection by swallowing water in a swimming pool contaminated with human waste.
(E. Coli Infections, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
That upon coming nearer, and finding his error, he sent out his long-boat to discover what it was; that his men came back in a fright, swearing they had seen a swimming house.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
There was one sergeant that was horribly wounded and yet kept on swimming for a surprising time, until some one in mercy blew out his brains.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He took it from my hand, held it up, and surveyed the bed, all blackened and scorched, the sheets drenched, the carpet round swimming in water.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Endurance, or aerobic, activities increase your breathing and heart rate. Brisk walking or jogging, dancing, swimming, and biking are examples.
(Exercise for Seniors, NIH: National Institute on Aging)
You can get athlete's foot from damp surfaces, such as showers, swimming pools, and locker room floors.
(Athlete's Foot, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
