noun
definition
The act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water.
Examples of swimming in a Sentence
I'll show you the swimming hole.
I wonder why a fella would go swimming with his hat on.
Drenched in sweat and covered with dirt, she decided to go swimming in the creek.
God, here I am running around the country and he's out there swimming with the fishes.
Sure, it's the best swimming hole around here.
They tried to make their way forward to the opposite bank and, though there was a ford one third of a mile away, were proud that they were swimming and drowning in this river under the eyes of the man who sat on the log and was not even looking at what they were doing.
That's what the locals call one of the swimming holes.
In cases where the cormus has no pneumatophore the topmost swimming bell may contain an oil-reservoir or oleocyst.
She recognized the inky blackness swimming in his green eyes and felt her gut twist.
I was at the creek swimming when he came home.
This detective stuff comes roaring back after an absence—like bike riding and swimming.
Does swimming alone late at night strike you as in character for Byrne?
He flipped water at her again and she turned away, swimming strongly for the bluff on the other side of the creek.
A patch of blue cement suggested a swimming pool might also inhabit the estate.
How could she have let him talk her into swimming in a creek where snakes slithering around in the nearby bushes?
The lovely beach, shelving gently into warm, clear waters, offers excellent safe swimming.
It happened in a swimming pool, not some river.
The forms comprised in the various groups, whilst exhibiting an extreme range of variety in shape, as may be seen on comparing an oyster, a cuttle-fish, and a sea-slug such as Doris; whilst adapted, some to life on dry land, others to the depths of the sea, others to rushing streams; whilst capable, some of swimming, others of burrowing, crawling or jumping, some, on the other hand, fixed and immobile; some amongst the most formidable of carnivores, others feeding on vegetable mud, or on the minutest of microscopic organisms - yet all agree in possessing in common a very considerable number of structural details which are not possessed in common by any other animals.
There must have been about 30 sting rays swimming about our legs.
Seems to me the kid was someplace swimming, fooling around when he shouldn't have been.
The idea of emeralds swimming around in a lake was too much for Katie. She felt nauseous again at her overwhelming situation and stopped, leaning against a tree. What she would give for a sip of real water!
They don't come out into the water very often when people are swimming.
More than likely they'll be swimming on top of the water in plain sight.
The little blue car pulled up in her drive at exactly five and she didn't have her swimming suit on.
A, A hydriform person giving rise to medusiform person by budding from th margin of the disk; B, free swimming medusa (Steenstrupia of Forbes) detached from the same, with manubrial genitali.
Cladonema still has the typical medusan structure, and is able to swim about, but in Clavatella the umbrella is so much reduced that swimming is no longer possible.
The cormus is always differentiated into two parts; an upper portion termed the nectosome, in which the appendages are locomotor or hydrostatic in function, that is to say, serve for swimming or floating; and a lower portion termed the siphosome, bearing appendages which are nutritive, reproductive or simply protective in function.
The young are generally born with their full sight, covered with down, strong, and capable of running or swimming immediately after they leave the egg-shell."
There are swimming baths for general use.
The name of shrimps is sometimes given to members of the order Schizopoda, which differ from most of the Macrura in having swimming branches or exopodites on the thoracic legs.
The food of the white bear consists chiefly of seals and fish, in pursuit of which it shows great power of swimming and diving, and a considerable degree of sagacity; but its food also includes the carcases of whales, birds and their eggs, and grass and berries when these can be had.
These bears are strong swimmers, Sir Edward Sabine having found one " swimming powerfully 40 m.
It is generally found on or near the surface of the ground, but it can not only pursue its prey through holes and crevices of rocks and under dense tangled herbage, but follow it up the stems and branches of trees, or even into the water, swimming with perfect ease.
To these succeed eight pairs of foliaceous branchial appendages on the front division of the body, followed on the hind division by four pairs of powerful bifurcate swimming feet and two rudimentary pairs, the number, though not the nature, of these appendages being malacostracan.
In a few days, or at most a fortnight, after a rainfall numberless specimens of these sizes were found swimming about, " and as not a single one was to be found in the water-pools prior to the rain, these must have been developed from the egg."
The second antennae are usually the chief motororgans for swimming, walking and climbing.
The ingenuity of nature, however, in adapting animals is not infinite, because the same devices are repeatedly employed by her to accomplish the same adaptive ends whether in fishes, reptiles, birds or mammals; thus she has repeated herself at least twenty-four times in the evolution of long-snouted rapacious swimming types of animals.
Melicertaceae; females tubicolous, usually attached, or forming spherical floating social aggregates; males free swimming.
This section comprehends three species only, known as Phalaropes or swimming sandpipers, which are distinguished by the membranes that fringe their toes, in two of the species forming marginal lobes,' and by the character of their lower plumage, which is as close as that of a duck.
A very few have the power of swimming by opening and shutting the valves of the shell (Pecten, Lima); most can crawl slowly or burrow rapidly; others are, when adult, permanently fixed to stones or rocks either by the shell or the byssus.
A story about an elderly couple who take a trip down memory lane with the aid of a swimming pool.
Swimming is not advised due to the main estuarial current, unless in the pools often left by the outgoing tide.
After a lovely picnic we got changed into our swimming togs and braved the water!
Guests will enjoy swimming, sunbathing on the tranquil beach or simply relaxing under the welcome shade of white umbrellas.
In perhaps a slightly unbalanced deal, Creasy helps Pita become really good at swimming.
They fish by swimming underwater, spearing the fish with their long, sharp bill.
The 3rd quarter proved very uneventful with both sides scoring a single goal during some much needed swimming practice.
Swimming upstream is easier Fortunes all depend on how far upstream chemicals companies are placed.
Dynamics of the vortex wakes of swimming and flying vertebrates.
The horseshoe pit and sand volleyball court are a few steps away and the swimming pool is nearby.