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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 either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
   - float
    
3. Be dizzy or giddy
   "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne"
    
4. Be covered with or submerged in a liquid
   "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"
   - drown
    
5. Move as if gliding through water
   "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"

1. The act of swimming
   "they took a short swim in the pool"
   - swimming

Derived forms: swam, swum, swims, swimming

See also: swimmer

Type of: aquatics, be, go, locomote, move, travel, water sport

Encyclopedia: Swim