Definitions for swim

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IPA: /swɪm/

Swim is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in swim (imsw).

Definitions for swim

noun

1. an act, instance, or period of swimming.
2. a motion as of swimming; a smooth, gliding movement.

Idioms

1. in the swim, alert to or actively engaged in events; in the thick of things:

verb (used with object)

1. to move along in or cross (a body of water) by swimming:
2. to perform (a particular stroke) in swimming:
3. to cause to swim or float, as on a stream.
4. to furnish with sufficient water to swim or float.

verb (used without object)

1. to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
2. to float on the surface of water or some other liquid.
3. to move, rest, or be suspended in air as if swimming in water.
4. to move, glide, or go smoothly over a surface.
5. to be immersed or steeped in or overflowing or flooded with a liquid:
6. to be dizzy or giddy; seem to whirl:

Origin of swim

before 900; Middle English swimmen, Old English swimman; cognate with Dutch zwemmen, German schwimmen, Old Norse svimma

Examples for swim

But indeed Vavasor could swim, well enough, only he did not see the necessity for it.

In his hurry, Campbell missed his footing, and fell overboard:—he could not swim.

I could not swim a stroke; and I sang out, lustily, for help.

One year ago, Diana Nyad completed her 35-year quest to do the impossible: a 53-hour swim from Cuba to Florida.

He was not fair to Vavasor; he never asked if he could swim.

My father used to swim in these fountains, to cool off from the heat and to make my mother laugh.

Allen was mounted on the major's charger, and was ordered to swim the river.

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.

"She says she cannot swim, and the girl cannot swim," Hassan says.

(She addresses me in various terms of endearment, as one would an old friend, and invites me to swim in her pool after lunch).