swim

Noun

• the act of swimming
  • it was the swimming they enjoyed most: they took a short swim in the pool
    

Verb

• move as if gliding through water
  • this snake swims through the soil where it lives
    

• be covered with or submerged in a liquid
  • the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy
    

• be dizzy or giddy
  • my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne
    

• be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom

• travel through water
  • We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore
    
  • a big fish was swimming in the tank
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  swimming , drown , float
• Antonyms: 
  sink , settle , go down , go under