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swim English

Meaning swim meaning

What does swim mean?
Definitions in simple English

swim Verb

— If you swim, you move through the water using your arms and legs. Let's go swimming at the beach. I don't like boats because I can't swim.

swim Noun

— A swim is when someone swims. We all went for a swim in the lake.

swim

— verb travel through water We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore a big fish was swimming in the tank — verb (= float) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom — verb move as if gliding through water this snake swims through the soil where it lives — verb be dizzy or giddy my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne — verb be covered with or submerged in a liquid the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy — noun (= swimming) the act of swimming it was the swimming they enjoyed most they took a short swim in the pool

Synonyms swim synonyms

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swim English » English

float bathe swimming dive feel dizzy dizziness drown bath tread water take a bath natation make swim go swimming giddiness confusion be dizzy bathing whirl waterlogged wash oneself wash waft wade vertigo turn tizzy surface struggle splash shower sail row navigate loitering immerse have a swim fully armed drift dizzy dip bogey become red be confused be buoyant

Topics swim topics

What do people use swim to talk about?
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by water

Swim
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal movement
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by water

Dive

Conjugation swim conjugation

How do you conjugate swim?

swim · verb

Examples swim examples

How do I use swim in a sentence?

Simple sentences

If Mary knew how to swim, she would go to the beach more often.
Dogs can swim.
Let's have a swim in the afternoon.
It's warm today so you can swim in the sea.
I used to swim here every day.
I like to swim.
I used to swim in this river.
I attempted to swim across the river.
He is afraid to swim.
You can't swim here.
I want to go for a swim.
I used to swim every day when I was a child.
I would swim through the ocean just to see your smile again.
You can swim, can't you?
Can you swim?
You can't swim, can you?
Can you swim across the river?
You may swim now.
It is dangerous for you to swim in this river.
With the bridge destroyed, there was nothing to do but swim.
A fish can swim.
I can no more swim than a fish can walk.
Despite having lived near the sea, she still cannot swim.
Can you swim as fast as he?
How I wish I could swim.
I wish I could swim.
It's much too cold to swim.

Movie subtitles

Yoon can't swim!
He can't swim!
What'd you do all that time Not knowing how to swim.
We'd swim naked in the sea, and then he'd try and.
Mademoiselle, you want to swim?
Rather a long swim, isn't it?
May she swim well.
In fact, I can't even swim.
You gonna row or swim to Gloucester, maybe.
So if nobody objects, I think I'll swim back to the mainland.
Wouldn't go in the river if you can't swim. - Oh.
I ask you if you can swim!
Do you swim?
We had to swim.
Say, listen, I just heard something that'll make your head swim.
The dying elephant has to swim this.
You know, Stanley can't swim a stroke.
Can you swim, Colonel darling?
You can't swim to Egypt!
Go swim, all.
The rocks are so thick, a fish couldn't swim between them without rubbing off his scales.
How'd you like a swim in the moonlight?
Swim?
You do swim?
No, we won't swim.
Swim, swim, swim.
I can swim.
CAN YOU SWIM?
I bet the cream puff can't even swim.
Baloney. Let's see you swim.
She'd get me on my feet so quick, it'd make your head swim.
Wouldn't go in the river if you can't swim.
You-You can't even swim.
I'm going to swim.
Why don't you come swim?

News and current affairs

In my own case, I behave pretty well already: I swim for 50 minutes a day, I floss regularly, I eat sensibly, and so forth.
I swim for exercise, and I time myself over a set distance to give myself a goal and encourage myself to work harder.
I am pleased when I swim fast, but I would get no sense of achievement from improving my time if the improvement came out of a bottle.
Mao is certainly a more interesting figure than were many tyrants - a poet, an intellectual, a student of history as well as a serial philanderer, who, according to his doctor, Li Zhisui, liked to swim in water, not bathe in it.
In their view, the government's role is to establish clear rules and regulations and then let businesses sink or swim on their own.
Advances in robotics will continue to occur, with automated spacecraft that can dig and swim, and telescopes that can look for earth-like planets around nearby stars.
Kafka, the reclusive and visionary Central European writer, gave his name to the twentieth century. Seventy-five years had to pass after Kafka's swim before Central and Eastern Europe would return to the broader European civilization.
Make these financial institutions small enough and simple enough to fail - then let the market decide which of them should sink or swim.
Non-seaworthy vessels notwithstanding, their only alternative would be to swim - or, like those on board the Princess of the Stars, to sink.
There is nothing in Canada to rival the power of Wall Street or the City of London. This enabled the government to swim against the tide of financial innovation and de-regulation.
Seventy-five years had to pass after Kafka's swim before Central and Eastern Europe would return to the broader European civilization.

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