Swim vs. Swimming

To move through or on top of water by moving the limbs, fins, or tail or by undulating the body

Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or a liquid substance, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body.

To play or relax in water

The act, sport, or technique of one that swims.

To float on water or another liquid

Relating to or used in swimming.

To be covered or flooded with a liquid

Capable of swimming

To possess a superfluity; abound

The act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water.

To experience a floating or giddy sensation; be dizzy

The state of being dizzy or in vertigo.

To appear to float or spin slowly

present participle of swim

To move through or across (a body of water or a distance) by swimming

That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.

To execute (a particular stroke) in swimming.

Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.

The act of swimming

Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming brain.

A distance covered by or period of time spent swimming.

The act of one who swims.

An area, as of a river, abounding in fish.

Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head.

Of, relating to, or used for swimming

the act of swimming

(intransitive) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.

filled or brimming with tears;

(intransitive) To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid

applied to a fish depicted horizontally

(intransitive) To move around freely because of excess space.

(transitive) To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.

To cause to swim.

To float.

(intransitive) To be overflowed or drenched.

(transitive) To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.

To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.

(intransitive) To glide along with a waving motion.

(intransitive) To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.

An act or instance of swimming.

The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.

(UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.

A dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in a freestyle swimming manner.

A dizziness; swoon.

abbreviation of someone who isn't meused as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums

To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.

To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.

To be overflowed or drenched.

Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.

To be filled with swimming animals.

To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream.

To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.

To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.

To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.

The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.

The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.

A part of a stream much frequented by fish.

the act of swimming

travel through water;

be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink