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
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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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1. Deborah Molinari:

   We dont swim out like we used to, because the sharks are coming in pretty close.

2. Arthur Stringer:

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

3. Lia Thomas:

   It's been a goal of mine to just swim at an Olympic trials for a very long time and I would love to see that through.

4. Jeff Steinhauer:

   Its like if you were trying to swim against a current that was going faster than you could swim, youd feel like you were going forward, but you were really going back. And thats analogous to a photon in a black hole trying to get out of the black hole but being pulled by gravity the wrong way.

5. New York-based dermatologist:

   Women are aspiring to [have] more hair than is natural. They get addicted—it’s kind of like tanorexia in that sense, ballerinas and gymnasts [may also] experience traction alopecia, and wearing hair pulled back too tightly under a swim cap could cause this for swimmers, too.