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

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

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

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  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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. Dominique Delport:

   The market is too complex, you cannot swim alone, marketers need us.

2. Fox News:

   We go for a swim, we take a few dives and I hit my head on the bottom of the pool, the amazing thing is there was not even a cut on my head. It just hit at precisely the angle where all the force was transmitted to one spot … the cervical vertebrae which severed the spinal cord.

3. Patrick Kennedy:

   This is a difficult situation for me. I love my older brother Bobby. He has extraordinary charisma and is a very gifted speaker, i admire his past work as an environmentalist – because of him, we can swim in the Hudson. But due to a wide range of Bobby’s positions, I’m supporting President Biden.

4. Adam McKay:

   What it really shows you is that these banks are built to make profits ... And much like a shark, they're gonna always swim towards where the injured fish is and we just have to be aware of that, until we change the laws that underpin these banks and corporate structures, nothing's gonna change ... I wanted people to be a little angry, a little worried, and just to kind of give everyone a heads up like, this is still in play, this isn't just something that ends and you move on.

5. Susan Clayton:

   Feeling connected to people and knowing Janet Swim can count on them matters.