Swim

Verb

 * 1)  To float.
 * 2)  To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
 * 3)  To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.

Noun

 * 1) An act or instance of swimming.

Adverbs for Swim
desperately; heroically; vigorously; unflaggingly; lustily; courageously; boldly; staunchly; gallantly.

Thesaurus
Australian crawl, aquaplaning, aquatics, backstroke, balneation, bathe, bathing, bon ton, breaststroke, butterfly, convention, crawl, custom, dive, diving, dog paddle, fashion, fin, fishtail, flapper, flipper, float, floating, go in swimming, go in wading, haute couture, high fashion, mode, natation, prevailing taste, proper thing, reel, sidestroke, skinny-dip, stream of fashion, style, surfboarding, surfing, swimming, tread water, treading water, trend, turn, vogue, wade, wading, waterskiing, whirl

Etymology
From swimmen:, from  swimman: (class III strong verb; past tense swamm, past participle geswummen), from, from. Cognate with swimme:,  zwemmen:,  schwimmen:,  svømme:,  simma:.

Derived terms

 * in the swim

Verb

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: سبح
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: igeri egin
 * Belarusian: плаваць
 * Bengali: সাঁতার
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: neui, neuial
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: nedar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: svimja
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: तैरना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: snámh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 泳ぐ
 * Kapingamarangi:
 * Korean: 수영하다


 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin:, no
 * Latvian: peldēt
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malayalam: നീന്തുക
 * Mangarevan:
 * Maori:
 * Mongolian: усанд сэлэх
 * Norfuk:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Persian:, شناریدن, شناویدن, شناوری کردن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch:
 * Russian: , плыть
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese Sardinian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пливати
 * Roman: plivati
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kuogelea
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఈదు
 * Thai: ว่ายน้ำ,
 * Tuamotuan:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: плавати
 * Urdu: تیرنا
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: nofio
 * West Frisian: swimme
 * Yiddish: שווימען

Noun

 * Arabic: سبحة, سباحة
 * Bulgarian: плуване
 * Czech:
 * Danish: svømmetur
 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 泳ぎ, およぎ, ,
 * Latin:
 * Slovak: plávanie
 * Slovene: plavanje
 * Telugu: ఈత