Swimming

Definitions

1. The act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water.
   countable, uncountable
2. The state of being dizzy or in vertigo.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

49 more languages

العربيةالسباحةسباحةعائم

Българскисветовъртеж

বাংলাসাঁতার

Bosanskikupaćiplivaćiplivačkiplivanjesimкупаћипливањепливаћипливачки+ 6 more

Catalànatació

Češtinaplaváníplaveckýplavectví

Cymraegnofio

Dansksvømning

Ελληνικάζάληίλιγγοςκολύμβηση

Esperantonaĝado

Suomiuimasillaanuimasilleenuiminenuinti+ 1 more

Gaeilgesnámh

Gàidhligsnàmh

Galegonado

עבריתשחיה

हिन्दीतैराकी

Hrvatskikupaćiplivaćiplivačkiplivanjesimкупаћипливањепливаћипливачки+ 6 more

Magyarúszás

Հայերենլող

Bahasa Indonesiaberenang

Íslenskasund

Italianonuoto

日本語スイミング水泳泳ぎ遊泳+ 1 more

ქართულიცურვა

Қазақ тіліжүзу

ភាសាខ្មែរការហែលទឹក

한국어수영

Kurdîbadnotsimşîmsûnd+ 2 more

Latinanatabundusnatatorius

Lietuviųplaukimas

Latviešupeldēšana

Македонскипливање

മലയാളംനീന്തൽ

Bahasa Melayuberenang

Nederlandsduizelingzwemmen

ଓଡ଼ିଆପହଁରା

Polskiarcybogatoarcybogatypływackipływactwopływanie+ 2 more

Portuguêsnatação

Românăînot

Русскийплавание

Shqipnot

Српскиkupaćiplivaćiplivačkiplivanjesimкупаћипливањепливаћипливачки+ 6 more

Svenskabadsimsimning

Тоҷикӣшиношиноварӣ

ไทยการว่ายน้ำ

Türkçeyüzme

Українськаплавання

اردوتَیراکی

Tiếng Việtbơi lội

Examples

“Triathlon competitors take⟳ part in open⟳ water swimming.”

“The daring adventures of the American people in their scalings of the Alps and the Rocky mountains and in their swimmings across the Niagara rapids […]”

“Though we don’t all reach⟳ nirvana when we swim⟳, swimming may well be that last⟳ refuge from connectivity — and, for some, the only way to find⟳ the solitary self.”

“Then I take⟳ my pipe of Tabacco, sitting close⟳ by a warme fire, the space of halfe an houre and more, vntill the giddinesse and swimming in my head be past, and the medicine also haue done it feate : then I vse to gargle my mouth with a cuppe of beere, well warmed with a toste.”

“But when the worms are killed with the aforesaid medicines, you must driue them out without delay⟳ : for there proceedeth a vicious exhalation from them, which both destroyeth appetite, and hurteth digestion, and being lifted vpward, it causeth swimmings, and other euils.”

“[The Speedwell] doth also wonderfully helpe the memory, and to ease all turnings and swimmings, and other paines of the head, and as it is sayd helpeth women to become⟳ fruitfull, that were barren[.]”

“Swimmings of the head and intestinal pains seemed the prelude of dissolution.”

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