synchronized swimming

noun

: swimming in which the movements of one or more swimmers are synchronized with a musical accompaniment so as to form changing patterns
synchronized swimmer noun

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After it was completed in 2011, the London Aquatics Centre went on to serve as one of the main venues for swimming, diving, and synchronized swimming during the 2012 competitions. Mae Hamilton, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025 How often are we treated to synchronized swimming during Paris Fashion Week — in Louboutin heels no less? Rhonda Richford, WWD, 2 Oct. 2024 Artistic swimming: Used to be synchronized swimming but needed rebranding. Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024 At New York Live Arts, her performers, fluent in many styles from postmodern dance and hip-hop to synchronized swimming and martial arts, took center stage for dancing that spoke about a body’s history, its conditioning. Siobhan Burke, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022 See All Example Sentences for synchronized swimming

Word History

First Known Use

1950, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of synchronized swimming was in 1950

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“Synchronized swimming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synchronized%20swimming. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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