[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

swimming \swim"ming\, a.
   1. that swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in,
      swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.
      1913 webster

   2. suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.
      1913 webster

   swimming bell zool., a nectocalyx. see illust. under
      siphonophora.

   swimming crab zool., any one of numerous species of
      marine crabs, as those of the family protunidae, which
      have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs
      flattened so as to serve as fins.
      1913 webster
see also:
swimming bell siphonophora swimming crab protunidae 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

swim \swim\, v. i. imp. swamor swum; p. p. swum; p. pr. 
   vb. n. swimming. as. swimman; akin to d. zwemmen, ohg.
   swimman, g. schwimmen, icel. svimma, dan. sw"omme, sw.
   simma. cf. sound an air bladder, a strait.
   1. to be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to
      float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity
      is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.
      1913 webster

   2. to move progressively in water by means of strokes with
      the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
      1913 webster

            leap in with me into this angry flood,
            and swim to yonder point.             --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to be overflowed or drenched. --ps. vi. 6.
      1913 webster

            sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim.
                                                  --thomson.
      1913 webster

   4. fig.: to be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
      1913 webster

            they now swim in joy.               --milton.
      1913 webster

   5. to be filled with swimming animals. obs.
      1913 webster

            streams that swim full of small fishes. --chaucer.
      1913 webster
see also:
swam swum swimming sound 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

swimming \swim"ming\, n.
   the act of one who swims.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

swimming \swim"ming\, a. from swim to be dizzy.
   being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming
   brain.
   1913 webster
see also:
swim 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

swimming \swim"ming\, n.
   vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. --dryden.
   1913 webster

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

swim
     n : the act of swimming syn: swimming
     v 1: travel through water; "we had to swim for 20 minutes to
          reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank"
     2: be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink syn: float
        ant: sink
     also: swum, swimming, swam
see also:
swimming float sink swum swam 

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

swimming
     adj 1: filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "watery
            eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid"
            syn: liquid, watery
     2: applied to a fish depicted horizontally syn: naiant
     n : the act of swimming syn: swim
see also:
liquid watery naiant swim 

[8] : WordNet (r) 2.0

swimming
     see swim
see also:
swim 

[9] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

74 moby thesaurus words for "swimming":
   australian crawl, rugby, acrobatics, agonistics, aquaplaning,
   aquatic, aquatics, association football, athletics, backstroke,
   balneal, balneation, bathe, bathing, breaststroke, butterfly,
   crawl, deep-sea, diving, dizziness, dizzy, dog paddle, drunken,
   drunkenness, estuarine, fin, fishtail, flapper, flipper, floating,
   fluctuating, giddiness, giddy, grallatorial, gymnastics, light,
   light-headed, lightheaded, lightheadedness, littoral, natant,
   natation, natatorial, natatory, palaestra, rugger, seashore, shore,
   sidestroke, soccer, spinning head, sports, surfboarding, surfing,
   swaying, swim, tidal, tiddly, track, track and field,
   treading water, tumbling, turned around, vertiginous,
   vertiginousness, vertigo, wading, water-dwelling, water-growing,
   water-living, water-loving, waterskiing, wavering, wooziness

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