swim

1. The act of swimming (synset 100443055)
   "it was the swimming they enjoyed most"; "they took a short swim in the pool"
   is a type of: aquatics, water sport - sports that involve bodies of water
   subtypes:

   • bathe - the act of swimming for pleasure or recreation
   • skinny-dip - a naked swim
   • dip, plunge - a brief swim in water
   • dive, diving - a headlong plunge into water
   • floating, natation - the act of someone who floats on the water
   • skin diving, skin-dive - underwater swimming without any more breathing equipment than a snorkel
   same as: swimming

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"
   is a type of: go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
   subtypes:

   • 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)
   is a type of: go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
   subtypes: buoy - float on the surface of water
   same as: 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"
   is a type of: 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"
   is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
   same as: drown
5. Move as if gliding through water (synset 201908642)
   "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"
   is a type of: go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

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