Synonyms for SWIM
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1. swimming, swimverb

   the act of swimming

   "it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool"

   Synonyms:
   swimming, swim

2. swimverb

   travel through water

   "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank"

   Synonyms:
   drown, float

3. float, swimverb

   be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom

   Synonyms:
   be adrift, drift, blow, drown, float, swim

4. swimverb

   be dizzy or giddy

   "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne"

   Synonyms:
   drown, float

5. swim, drownverb

   be covered with or submerged in a liquid

   "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"

   Synonyms:
   overwhelm, drown, submerge, float, swim

6. swimverb

   move as if gliding through water

   "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"

   Synonyms:
   drown, float

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1. paddle

   travel along (a stretch of water) by paddling

   i paddled over to the boat.

   Submitted by anonymous on September 22, 2020  

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1. swimverb

   Synonyms:
   float, be borne up (on a liquid)

2. swimverb

   Synonyms:
   be borne along (as on water, by effort or by a current), buffet the waves, float with the tide

3. swimverb

   Synonyms:
   glide, skim

4. swimverb

   Synonyms:
   be flooded, be inundated

5. swimverb

   Synonyms:
   be dizzy (as the head)

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1. List of paraphrases for "swim":

   swimming, swam, bath, bathing, swimmer, aquatics

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How to use SWIM in a sentence?

1. Di Leonardo:

   When we got out there. I started by throwing a little bait – a wild animal would typically be in flight mode but these guys were totally tame. They started eating the bait within a foot of me. The boats got a little too close so they got spooked. I quickly netted the male. When I realized they were going to swim I put him in a carrier on the shore and I carried the female. We were able to reunite them, these guys aren’t equipped for the wild at all.

2. sindiswa matyobeni:

   You won’t have to swim against the stream once you find your own current.”

3. Warren Wallace:

   When we host big public Alcatraz Swims or small private ones, we are planning around the currents, creating detailed safety plans, coordinating with the Coast Guard and providing motorboat and kayak support during the swim, many of our captains and kayakers have supported hundreds of Alcatraz Swims, and that’s important in ensuring the swimmers have a safe and successful experience.

4. James Savage:

   Open water, you can swim in oceans, lakes, and you get to travel around.

5. Clifford Truesdell:

   How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.