1. The activity or sport of moving through water by moving limbs
   "She took up swimming as a form of exercise";
   - natation [literary]
    
2. The act of swimming
   "it was the swimming they enjoyed most";
   - swim

1. Filled or brimming with tears
   "swimming eyes";
   - liquid
    
2. (heraldry) applied to a fish depicted horizontally
   "The coat of arms featured a swimming salmon";
   - naiant

1. Move forward when submerged or floating on water by moving the body or limbs
   "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank"
    
2. Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
   "The fish swam just below the surface";
   - float
    
3. Be covered with or submerged in a liquid
   "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy";
   - drown
    
4. Move as if gliding through water
   "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"
    
5. Be dizzy or giddy
   "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne"

Derived forms: swimmings

See also: horizontal, tearful

Type of: aquatics, be, exist, go, locomote, move, travel, water sport

Encyclopedia: Swimming