Swim definition
To float on water or another liquid.
Suds swam on the surface of the dishwater.
verb
To experience a floating or giddy sensation; be dizzy.
verb
To appear to float or spin slowly.
The room swam before my eyes.
verb
To have far too many or far too much.
An employer swimming in job applications.
verb
The act or motion of swimming.
noun
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To move through water by movements of the arms and legs, or of flippers, fins, tail, etc.
verb
To cause to swim or float.
verb
To perform (a specified stroke) in swimming.
verb
A period of swimming for sport.
A short swim before lunch.
noun
A distance swum or to be swum.
noun
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(informal) Of or for swimming.
Swim trunks.
adjective
The condition of being dizzy; dizzy spell.
noun
Of, relating to, or used for swimming.
A swim mask.
adjective
To move with a smooth, gliding motion, as though swimming.
verb
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To float on the surface of a liquid.
verb
To be covered or saturated with or as with a liquid.
verb
To overflow; be flooded.
Eyes swimming with tears.
verb
To move across (a body of water) by swimming.
verb
The definition of a swim is a period of moving or floating through the water.
An example of a swim is a doggie paddle through the pool.
noun
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Swim means something related to moving through a body of water.
An example of swim used as an adjective is in the phrase "swim suit," which means clothing for going in the pool.
adjective
Swim is defined as to move through or float on water.
An example of swim is to compete in a backstroke race.
verb
To move through or on top of water by moving the limbs, fins, or tail or by undulating the body.
Ducks swam in the pond.
verb
To play or relax in water.
The children went swimming in the surf.
verb
To be covered or flooded with a liquid.
Chicken swimming in gravy.
verb
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To possess a superfluity; abound.
After winning the lottery, she was swimming in money.
verb
To move through or across (a body of water or a distance) by swimming.
She swam the channel. I swam 10 laps.
verb
To execute (a particular stroke) in swimming.
verb
An area, as of a river, abounding in fish.
noun
The act of swimming.
Went for a swim before lunch.
noun
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A distance covered by or period of time spent swimming.
noun
To have too much room, as within an ill-fitting item of apparel.
A child swimming in an adult's overcoat.
verb
To be dizzy.
The excitement made my head swim.
verb
Someone Who Isn't Me; Someone Who Isn't Myself.
initialism
To have a hazy, reeling, or whirling appearance.
The room swam before me.
verb
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in the swim
- Active in the general current of affairs.
idiom
swim against the stream
- To move counter to a prevailing trend.
idiom
in the swim
- conforming to the current fashions, or active in the main current of affairs
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of swim
- Middle English swimmen from Old English swimman
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition