Her downfall came about, because for a second she forgot that to swim in the shark pool, you have to always act like a shark.
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My father used to swim in these fountains, to cool off from the heat and to make my mother laugh.
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(She addresses me in various terms of endearment, as one would an old friend, and invites me to swim in her pool after lunch).
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One year ago, Diana Nyad completed her 35-year quest to do the impossible: a 53-hour swim from Cuba to Florida.
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"She says she cannot swim, and the girl cannot swim," Hassan says.
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And, if ye're reasonable, I'll not even trouble you to swim for it this time.
Captain Blood|Rafael Sabatini
Other children were thrown into rivers and those who could swim were shot down as they struggled in the water.
With Our Soldiers in France|Sherwood Eddy
And then the people of the hill rose up and went into the stream to swim.
Gods and Fighting Men|Lady I. A. Gregory
Hunferth calls Beowulf a mudscow; Breca and Beowulf swim like two dead herrings.
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But in the season of neap tides enough water is left for them to swim about within the semi-circle of stakes.
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British Dictionary definitions for swim
swim
/ (swɪm) /
verbswims, swimming, swamorswum
(intr)to move along in water, etc, by means of movements of the body or parts of the body, esp the arms and legs, or (in the case of fish) tail and fins
(tr)to cover (a distance or stretch of water) in this way
(tr)to compete in (a race) in this way
(intr)to be supported by and on a liquid; float
(tr)to use (a particular stroke) in swimming
(intr)to move smoothly, usually through air or over a surface
(intr)to reel or seem to reelmy head swam; the room swam around me
(intr; often foll by in or with)to be covered or flooded with water or other liquid
(intr often foll by in) to be liberally supplied (with)he's swimming in money
(tr)to cause to float or swim
(tr)to provide (something) with water deep enough to float in
swim against the tideorswim against the streamto resist prevailing opinion
swim with the tideorswim with the streamto conform to prevailing opinion
noun
the act, an instance, or period of swimming
any graceful gliding motion
a condition of dizziness; swoon
a pool in a river good for fishing
in the swiminformalfashionable or active in social or political activities