| noun | the act of swimming; : “it was the swimming they enjoyed most” |
| verb | travel through water “We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore” |
| verb | be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom |
| 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” |
| verb | move as if gliding through water “this snake swims through the soil where it lives” |
| adjective | filled or brimming with tears “swimming eyes” |
| adjective | applied to a fish depicted horizontally |
| swim | verb | travel through water |
| swim | noun | the act of swimming; : |
| swimmer | noun | a person who travels through the water by swimming |
| swimming | noun | the act of swimming; : |
| floating | noun | the act of someone who floats on the water |
| floater | noun | a swimmer who floats in the water |
| float | noun | something that floats on the surface of water |
| floatation | noun | the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking) |
| flotation | noun | the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking) |
| liquidness | noun | the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility |