Definition of swim
- a cloud swam slowly across the moon
- sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish
- —Daniel Webster
- potatoes swimming in gravy
- swim a stream
He's teaching the children to swim.
She swam across the pool.
He swam the English Channel.
The racers must swim the backstroke.
We watched the fish swimming in the river.
Ducks swam in the pond.
I felt weak and my head was swimming.
The room swam before my eyes.
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the merest glimpse of blood sends him into a swim
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1599
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1924
: to move through water by moving your arms and legs
: to move through or across (an area of water) by swimming
: to swim by using (a specified method)
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