Antonyms 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

How to use swim in a sentence?

1. Michael J. Gelb:

   Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

2. Michael Phelps:

   I do understand that I have to swim faster to have a chance to win the gold medal, i've trusted that man since I was 11 years old, and it's not going to stop.

3. Ariarne Titmus:

   Obviously having a great swim in the 400 gives me confidence coming into the 200, i thought my back end was definitely my strength in the 400. I knew I could have that on the way home in the 200.

4. Marcia Bartlett:

   I was cheering, i think that it( transitioning to a republic) is going to come up in a referendum at some point in Jamaica. There are still people with the mindset that it's good to be led by the Brits. But as far as I'm concerned, Jamaica needs to sink or swim on its own.

5. Clifford Villalon:

   People go fishing because of needs. People swim because of wants. People fish and swim even in unpredictable waters for contentment.

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