Swimming vs. Bathing — What's the Difference?

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.

Bathing is the washing of the body with a liquid, usually water or an aqueous solution, or the immersion of the body in water. It may be practiced for personal hygiene, religious ritual or therapeutic purposes.

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

To take a bath.

Relating to or used in swimming.

To go into the water for swimming or other recreation.

Capable of swimming

To become immersed in or as if in liquid.

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

To sunbathe.

The state of being dizzy or in vertigo.

To immerse in liquid; wet.

Present participle of swim

To wash in a liquid.

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

To apply a liquid to for healing or soothing purposes

Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.

To seem to wash or pour over; suffuse

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

The act of taking a bath.

The act of one who swims.

The act of swimming.

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

Present participle of bathe

The act of swimming

Present participle of bath

Filled or brimming with tears;

Act of taking a bath or baths.

Applied to a fish depicted horizontally

Immersing the body in water or sunshine

The act of washing yourself (or another person)