| 单词 | swim |
| 释义 | swim (once / 142 pages) vn WORD FAMILY swim: swam, swiming, swimmer, swimming, swims, swum+/swimmer: swimmers/swimming: swimmingly, swimmings USAGE EXAMPLESThe Town Hall structure recreated the building’s swimming pool - complete with gingerbread swimmers - and also featured a chocolate-topped clock and, cinnamon candy chimneys. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Small and medium-sized fish swim upwards when stressed, whereas larger fish tend to swim downwards. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) As the songwriters strummed guitars and punched lyrics into their phones, Pine’s children splashed in a swimming pool and a chef prepared brick-oven pizzas. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1v travel through water We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore a big fish was swimming in the tank Hypo|Hyper school swim in or form a large group of fish break water, finshow the fins above the water while swimming finpropel oneself through the water in a finning motion paddleswim like a dog in shallow water crawlswim by doing the crawl breaststrokeswim with the face down and extend the arms forward and outward while kicking with the leg backstrokeswim on one's back skinny-dipbathe in the nude diveswim under water skin-diveswim underwater with no breathing apparatus other than a snorkel snorkeldive with a snorkel go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 2v move as if gliding through water this snake swims through the soil where it lives Hyper go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 3v be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper float float move lightly, as if suspended floatset afloat go down, go under, settle, sink go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" sinkcause to sink buoy float on the surface of water go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 4v be covered with or submerged in a liquid the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy Syn|Hyper drown be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 5v be dizzy or giddy my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne Hyper be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 6n the act of swimming "it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool Syn|Hypo|Hyper swimming bathe the act of swimming skinny-dipa naked swim dip, plungea brief swim in water dive, divinga headlong plunge into water floating, natationthe act of someone who floats on the water skin diving, skin-diveunderwater swimming without any more breathing equipment than a snorkel dead-man's float, prone floata floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward belly flop, belly flopper, belly whop, belly whoppera dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water cliff divingdiving into the water from a steep overhanging cliff flipa dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water full gainer, gainera dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board half gainera dive in which the diver throws the feet forward and up to complete a half backward somersault and enters the water facing the diving board jackknifea dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out swallow dive, swan divea dive in which the diver arches the back with arms outstretched before entering the water scuba divingskin diving with scuba apparatus snorkel diving, snorkelingskin diving with a snorkel aquatics, water sport sports that involve bodies of water |
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