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noun

Swimming n. The act of one who swims.

Swimming n. Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head.

verb

Swim v. t. (past swam; past part. swum; pres. part. swimming)

To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream. "Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main."

To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.

To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.

Swim v. i. (past swam; past part. swum; pres. part. swimming)

To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.

To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail. "Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point."

To be overflowed or drenched. "Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim."

Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid. "(They) now swim in joy."

To be filled with swimming animals. (Obs.) "(Streams) that swim full of small fishes."

adjective

Swimming adj.

That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.

Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.

Swimming bell (Zool.), a nectocalyx.

Swimming crab (Zool.), any one of numerous species of marine crabs, as those of the family Protunidae, which have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs flattened so as to serve as fins.

Swimming adj. Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.

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Etymology of 'Swimming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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