Antonyms for SWIM
swɪmswim

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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

How to use SWIM in a sentence?

1. Jim Sano:

   There's a good chance you'll be approached by a playful sea lion or a group of turtles that will happily swim alongside you.

2. Michael Phelps:

   I mean I’ll go and swim from time to time just to kind of decompress and get away, but I don’t miss the grind of that. I mean, it’s probably easier than doing what I’m doing now, i would say training for the Olympics is easier than living a normal life where I’m outside of the pool most of the time.

3. Babul Akhter:

   Most of the passengers were able to swim ashore.

4. Arthur Stringer:

   Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

5. Dan Grieb:

   There is no road map with Chris, a Down syndrome athlete has never even attempted a 17-hour race that involved a bike, a swim, and a run, so we didn't know what to expect.

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