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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   • Move
   • Travel

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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. 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.

2. Loren Weisman:

   Stop drowning your dreams by jumping into waters that you are unable to swim in.

3. Lia Thomas:

   The process of coming out as being trans and continuing to swim was a lot of uncertainty and unknown around an area that's usually really solid, realizing I was trans threw that into question. Was I going to keep swimming ? What did that look like ?

4. Brad Nelson:

   More recently people in the field have been looking at other applications like water treatment or environmental cleanup, where you might be able to operate hundreds, thousands, millions of these devices and have them swim through polluted water, catalyze pollutants, and then collect them back.

5. Ian Kerner:

   Sex is like swimming, i'm not so worried about adults who know how to swim. But where do 13-year-olds who want to learn about sex and start masturbating go ? They need to learn how to swim in a world of porn, because it's not going anywhere.