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

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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. Lola Daehler:

   I'm very happy I got to the lake, i get to wake up and swim and not be in New York City, which seems pretty terrible right now.

2. Susan Clayton:

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

3. Tim Taylor:

   You don't have to swim to dive. The equipment does the work for you -- you just have to be comfortable... to overcome that fear and learn. That is what's going to be difficult to teach, it's not impossible... it's not going to be done in a day. I would imagine they are going to take some time to train these kids.

4. American Chase Kalisz:

   The biggest thing was kind of me being isolated, not having any other outside distractions from swimming. So it was eat, sleep, swim and that's all I did, i did everything right that I possibly could for a year.

5. Professor Edsger Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984:

   The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.