1. The act of swimming
   "it was the swimming they enjoyed most"
   - swim

1. Filled or brimming with tears
   "swimming eyes"
   - liquid 
2. Applied to a fish depicted horizontally
   - naiant

1. Travel through water
   "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
   - float 
3. Be dizzy or giddy
   "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne" 
4. Be covered with or submerged in a liquid
   "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"
   - drown 
5. Move as if gliding through water
   "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"

Derived forms: swimmings

See also: horizontal, swimmer, tearful

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

Encyclopedia: Swim

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