swim
swim
- n the act of swimming
it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool - v travel through water
We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore
a big fish was swimming in the tank - v be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- v be dizzy or giddy
my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne - v be covered with or submerged in a liquid
the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy - v move as if gliding through water
this snake swims through the soil where it lives
- Avoid swimming between sandbars, near steep drop-offs, near channels or at river mouths where sharks are found.
- Australia's swimming-crazy fans screamed for gold and generously applauded the achievements of swimmers from all countries.
- In 2007, Slovenian Martin Strel became the first person to swim the Amazon River all 3,300 miles of it an odyssey saw him battling parasites, pirhanas and man-hungry .