swim

Noun
  1. The act of swimming (synset 100443055)
    "it was the swimming they enjoyed most"; "they took a short swim in the pool"
    hypernym: aquatics, water sport - sports that involve bodies of water
    hyponym:
    synonym: swimming
Verb
  1. Travel through water (synset 201964770)
    "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank"
    hypernym: go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
    hyponym:
    • bathe - swim for pleasure or recreation
    • school - swim in or form a large group of fish
    • break water, fin - show the fins above the water while swimming
    • fin - propel oneself through the water in a finning motion
    • paddle - swim like a dog in shallow water
    • crawl - swim by doing the crawl
    • breaststroke - swim with the face down and extend the arms forward and outward while kicking with the leg
    • backstroke - swim on one's back
    • dive - swim under water
  2. Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom (synset 201908286)
    hypernym: go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
    hyponym: buoy - float on the surface of water
    synonym: float
    verb group:
    • float - move lightly, as if suspended
    • float - set afloat
  3. Be dizzy or giddy (synset 202761938)
    "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne"
    hypernym: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
  4. Be covered with or submerged in a liquid (synset 202761786)
    "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"
    hypernym: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
    synonym: drown
  5. Move as if gliding through water (synset 201908642)
    "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"
    hypernym: go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

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