swim
the act of swimming
- it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool
• Syn:
swimming
• Derivationally related forms:
swim (for: swimming)
• Hypernyms:
water sport, aquatics
• Hyponyms:
bathe, skinny-dip, dip, plunge, dive,
diving, floating, natation, skin diving, skin-dive
1. travel through water (Freq. 12)
- We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore
- a big fish was swimming in the tank
• Derivationally related forms:
swimmer, swimming
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Hyponyms:
school, fin, break water, paddle, crawl,
breaststroke, backstroke, skinny-dip, dive
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP
- These men swim across the river
- These men swim the river
2. be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
float
• Ant:
sink (for: float)
• Derivationally related forms:
floating (for: float), floater (for: float), float (for: float), floatation (for: float), flotation (for: float)
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Hyponyms:
buoy
• Verb Group:
float
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- These cars won't swim
3. be dizzy or giddy
- my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne
• Hypernyms:
be
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
4. be covered with or submerged in a liquid
- the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy
• Syn:
drown
• Hypernyms:
be
• Verb Frames:
- Something is ----ing PP
5. move as if gliding through water
- this snake swims through the soil where it lives
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Verb Frames:
- Something is ----ing PP
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