Definitions for swimming

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swimming swim·ming

Spelling: [swim-ing]

IPA: /ˈswɪm ɪŋ/

Swimming is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in swimming (giimmnsw).

Definitions for swimming

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that swims.
2. the skill or technique of a person who swims.
3. the sport of swimming.
4. an act, instance, or period of swimming.
5. 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:

adjective

1. pertaining to, characterized by, or capable of swimming.
2. used in or for swimming:
3. immersed in or overflowing with water or some other liquid.
4. dizzy or giddy:

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 swimming

before 1000; Middle English; Old English swimmende (adj.). See swim, -ing², -ing¹

Examples for swimming

Marvin takes off his T-shirt and dives into his swimming pool.

Thoughts of crossing the stream by swimming occurred to him.

Each room has its own swimming pool and sliding walls made of glass.

Now the full moon had risen, and the world was swimming in silver light.

The walls are painted with trees and birds and swimming fish and statues.

There was a golden drinking cup with swimming fish on its sides.

Obviously, Dominic West can carry on swimming as much as he likes.

His swimming led him back to meet the woman he had gently smiled at in the first episode.

One of the three, Ralph Goodwin, is said to have drowned while swimming at a beach outside Havana.

And the bathers plunge into the swimming tank with loud splashes.