9 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Swimming \Swim"ming\, a. 1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion. [1913 Webster] 2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. [1913 Webster] {Swimming bell} (Zool.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under {Siphonophora}. {Swimming crab} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of marine crabs, as those of the family {Protunidae}, which have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs flattened so as to serve as fins. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Swim \Swim\, v. i. [imp. {Swam}or {Swum}; p. p. {Swum}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swimming}.] [AS. swimman; akin to D. zwemmen, OHG. swimman, G. schwimmen, Icel. svimma, Dan. sw["o]mme, Sw. simma. Cf. {Sound} an air bladder, a strait.] 1. To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed. [1913 Webster] 2. To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail. [1913 Webster] Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To be overflowed or drenched. --Ps. vi. 6. [1913 Webster] Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim. --Thomson. [1913 Webster] 4. Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid. [1913 Webster] [They] now swim in joy. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] [Streams] that swim full of small fishes. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Swimming \Swim"ming\, n. The act of one who swims. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Swimming \Swim"ming\, a. [From {Swim} to be dizzy.] Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Swimming \Swim"ming\, n. Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: swim n : the act of swimming [syn: {swimming}] v 1: travel through water; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank" 2: be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink [syn: {float}] [ant: {sink}] [also: {swum}, {swimming}, {swam}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: swimming adj 1: filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "watery eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid" [syn: {liquid}, {watery}] 2: applied to a fish depicted horizontally [syn: {naiant}] n : the act of swimming [syn: {swim}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: swimming See {swim} From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 74 Moby Thesaurus words for "swimming": Australian crawl, Rugby, acrobatics, agonistics, aquaplaning, aquatic, aquatics, association football, athletics, backstroke, balneal, balneation, bathe, bathing, breaststroke, butterfly, crawl, deep-sea, diving, dizziness, dizzy, dog paddle, drunken, drunkenness, estuarine, fin, fishtail, flapper, flipper, floating, fluctuating, giddiness, giddy, grallatorial, gymnastics, light, light-headed, lightheaded, lightheadedness, littoral, natant, natation, natatorial, natatory, palaestra, rugger, seashore, shore, sidestroke, soccer, spinning head, sports, surfboarding, surfing, swaying, swim, tidal, tiddly, track, track and field, treading water, tumbling, turned around, vertiginous, vertiginousness, vertigo, wading, water-dwelling, water-growing, water-living, water-loving, waterskiing, wavering, wooziness
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