swim

/swim/

Thân thiện

A child takes a swim in the clear blue pool.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • The act or sport of moving through water by using the limbs: "swim" refers to the activity or instance of propelling oneself through water.
   • A period or instance of swimming for pleasure or exercise: It can denote a specific session of swimming.

2. Verb:

   • To propel oneself through water by moving the body, especially the arms and legs: The primary meaning is to move in water.
   • To be covered or flooded with a liquid: To be immersed or floating in a liquid.
   • To experience a sensation of dizziness or spinning: To feel as if things are moving unsteadily around you.
   • To move or glide smoothly: To seem to flow or move effortlessly.

Usage and Examples

• Noun:

  • She goes for a morning swim every day. (She engages in the activity of swimming each morning.)
  • Let's take a quick swim before lunch. (Let's have a short session of swimming.)

• Verb (to move in water):

  • Fish swim in the ocean. (Fish move through the water of the ocean.)
  • He learned to swim when he was five. (He learned how to propel himself in water at age five.)

• Verb (to be covered in liquid):

  • The strawberries were swimming in cream. (The strawberries were submerged or floating in cream.)

• Verb (to feel dizzy):

  • The room began to swim after she stood up too quickly. (The room seemed to spin, causing dizziness.)

• Verb (to glide smoothly):

  • A smile swam across her face. (A smile seemed to glide smoothly onto her face.)

Advanced Usage

• "to be in the swim": To be actively involved in or aware of current events, trends, or social activities.

  • After joining the club, he was finally in the swim of things. (He became part of the active social scene.)

• "to swim against the tide/current": To act or think in a way that is opposite to what most people are doing or believing.

  • She's always swimming against the tide with her unconventional ideas. (Her ideas consistently oppose the mainstream.)

• "to swim with the tide/current": To act or think in accordance with the prevailing opinion or trend.

  • It's easier to swim with the tide and agree with the majority. (It's easier to conform.)

Variants and Related Words

• Swimmer (n): A person or animal that swims.
  • She is a competitive swimmer.
• Swimming (n/adj): The activity or sport of swimming; related to swim.
  • Swimming is excellent exercise.
• Swimmingly (adv): Very smoothly or successfully.
  • The project is going swimmingly.

Synonyms

• Float: To rest or move on the surface of a liquid.
• Glide: To move smoothly and continuously.
• Reel: To whirl or feel dizzy (for the dizzy sense).

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Swim around: (Of an idea) to be present in one's mind.
  • That thought has been swimming around in my head all day. (The idea has been circulating in my thoughts.)
• Swim in: To be plentifully supplied with (often money).
  • They are swimming in cash after winning the lottery. (They have an abundance of cash.)

Related Idioms

• Sink or swim: To either fail completely or succeed by one's own efforts, without help.
  • On his first day, they gave him the project and left him to sink or swim. (He had to succeed or fail independently.)
• Make one's head swim: To cause someone to feel confused or dizzy.
  • All these complicated instructions make my head swim. (The complexity causes mental dizziness.)

Học thuật

Noun

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

Verb

1. move as if gliding through water
   • this snake swims through the soil where it lives
2. be covered with or submerged in a liquid
   • the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy
3. be dizzy or giddy
   • my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne
4. be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
5. travel through water
   • We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore
   • a big fish was swimming in the tank

Từ đồng nghĩa

• swimming
• drown
• float