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swim·ming

(swĭm′ĭng)

The act, sport, or technique of one that swims.

adj.

1. Relating to or used in swimming.

2. Capable of swimming: swimming insects.

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swim•ming

(ˈswɪm ɪŋ)

n.

1. the act of a person or thing that swims.

2. a sport based on the ability to swim.

adj.

3. capable of swimming.

4. used in or for swimming.

[before 1000]

swimming

enatation - Escape by swimming.
butterfly stroke - In swimming, the stroke in which both arms are raised out of the water and lifted forward together.
shoal - A synonym for "school," referring to a large number of fish swimming together.
supernatant - Means "swimming on the surface."

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Noun	1.	swimming - the act of swimming; "it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool" swim aquatics, water sport - sports that involve bodies of water bathe - the act of swimming; "the Englishman said he had a good bathe" skinny-dip - a naked swim plunge, dip - a brief swim in water dive, diving - a headlong plunge into water floating, natation - the act of someone who floats on the water skin diving, skin-dive - underwater swimming without any more breathing equipment than a snorkel
Adj.	1.	swimming - filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid" liquid tearful - filled with or marked by tears; "tearful eyes"; "tearful entreaties"
	2.	swimming - applied to a fish depicted horizontally naiant heraldry - the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies horizontal - parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a horizontal surface"

Translations

سابِحٌ في، عائِمسِبَاحَة

plaváníplující

dækket afflyde rundt isvømning

Schwimmen schwimmend

κολύμβηση

natación flotando nadando

uinti

natation

plivanje

syndandi/fljótandi í

nuoto nuotante

水泳

수영

plávajúci

plavanje

simning

การว่ายน้ำ

ile kaplıyüzenyüzme

sự bơi

充溢的游泳

swimming

[ˈswɪmɪŋ]

A. N → natación f
do you like swimming? → ¿te gusta nadar?

B. CPD swimming bath(s) N(PL) = swimming pool swimming cap N → gorro m de baño
swimming costume N → traje m de baño, bañador m (Sp)
swimming gala N → festival m de natación
swimming lesson N → clase f de natación
swimming pool N → piscina fsing, alberca fsing (Mex), pileta fsing (de natación) (S. Cone)
swimming trunks NPL → bañador msing (Sp)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

swimming

[ˈswɪmɪŋ]

n → natation f
Do you like swimming? → Tu aimes la natation?

modif [champion, event, lesson, club] → de natationswimming baths npl (British) → piscine fswimming cap n → bonnet m de bainswimming costume n (British) → tenue m de bainswimming gala n → compétition f de natationswimming instructor n → maître m/f nageur/euseswimming pool n → piscine fswimming trunks npl → maillot m de bain (pour homme)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

swimming

n → Schwimmen nt; do you like swimming? → schwimmen Sie gern?

adj (= dizzy) feeling → schwummrig (inf)

swimming

in cpds → Schwimm-;

swimming bath

n usu pl (Brit) → Schwimmbad nt

swimming cap

n (Brit) → Badekappe f, → Bademütze f

swimming costume

n (Brit) → Badeanzug m

swimming gala

n → Schwimmfest nt

swimming instructor

n → Schwimmlehrer(in) m(f)

swimming

swimming pool

n → Schwimmbad nt; (outdoor also) → Freibad nt; (indoor also) → Hallenbad nt

swimming ring

n → Schwimmring m

swimming things

pl → Badesachen pl, → Badezeug nt

swimming trunks

pl (Brit) → Badehose f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

swimming

[ˈswɪmɪŋ] n → nuoto

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

swim

(swim) – present participle ˈswimming: past tense swam (swӕm) : past participle swum (swam) – verb

1. to move through water using arms and legs or fins, tails etc. The children aren't allowed to go sailing until they've learnt to swim; I'm going / I've been swimming; She swam to the shore; They watched the fish swimming about in the aquarium.

2. to cross (a river etc), compete in (a race), cover (a distance etc) by swimming. He swam three lengths of the swimming-pool; She can't swim a stroke (= at all).

3. to seem to be moving round and round, as a result of dizziness etc. His head was swimming; Everything began to swim before his eyes.

noun

an act of swimming. We went for a swim in the lake.

ˈswimmer noun

a person who swims or who can swim. He's a strong swimmer.

ˈswimming adjective

covered with, or floating in, a liquid. meat swimming in/with grease.

ˈswimming-bath, ˈswimming-pool nouns

an indoor or outdoor pool for swimming in.

ˈswimming-trunks noun plural

short pants worn by boys and men for swimming.

ˈswimsuit, ˈswimming-costume nouns

a (woman's) garment worn for swimming.

swimming

→ سِبَاحَة plavání svømning Schwimmen κολύμβηση natación uinti natation plivanje nuoto 水泳 수영 zwemmen svømming pływanie natação плавание simning การว่ายน้ำ yüzme sự bơi 游泳

swimming

n natación f, (el) nadar

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Dab-Dab, the duck, used to keep herself cool by jumping into the sea and swimming behind the ship.

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But, as Matkah told Kotick, "So long as you don't lie in muddy water and get mange, or rub the hard sand into a cut or scratch, and so long as you never go swimming when there is a heavy sea, nothing will hurt you here."

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Every cell in his brain was occupied, to the exclusion of all other thoughts, by the girl swimming in the water below.

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"Help, help!" I shouted, swimming towards the Abraham Lincoln in desperation.

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You observe that in the ordinary swimming position of the Sperm Whale, the front of his head presents an almost wholly vertical plane to the water; you observe that the lower part of that front slopes considerably backwards, so as to furnish more of a retreat for the long socket which receives the boom-like lower jaw; you observe that the mouth is entirely under the head, much in the same way, indeed, as though your own mouth were entirely under your chin.

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He says it kills all the rats and--oh dear!' cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, `I'm afraid I've offended it again!' For the Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.

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The girl had seen the lioness take to the water, and she had also seen that I was swimming much more slowly than she, and what did she do?

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Ojo, who was on the front of the raft, looked over into the water and thought he saw some large fishes swimming about.

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and this time three years, if I am not at home, tell them to address them to At that moment the two wakes were fairly crossed, and instantly, then, in accordance with their singular ways, shoals of small harmless fish, that for some days before had been placidly swimming by our side, darted away with what seemed shuddering fins, and ranged themselves fore and aft with the stranger's flanks.

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Ulysses' heart now began to fail him, and he said despairingly to himself, "Alas, Jove has let me see land after swimming so far that I had given up all hope, but I can find no landing place, for the coast is rocky and surf-beaten, the rocks are smooth and rise sheer from the sea, with deep water close under them so that I cannot climb out for want of foot hold.

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The children often spent long summer days on this lagoon, swimming or floating most of the time, playing the mermaid games in the water, and so forth.

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He fell into the sea and went under, gulping a mouthful of salt water into his lungs, and came up strangling but swimming. Swimming was one of the things he did not have to think about.