swimming
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No doubt, in a little lake full of kiddie pee but swimming is swimming and tanning is tanning.
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- noun The act, sport, or technique of one that swims.
- adjective Relating to or used in swimming.
- adjective Capable of swimming: swimming insects.
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No doubt, in a little lake full of kiddie pee but swimming is swimming and tanning is tanning.
— truepyrite Diary Entry - The human body floats without exertion on the surface, and can be submerged only with difficulty; but swimming is unpleasant, as the feet have too great a tendency to rise to the surface. — baedeker’s Palestine and Syria, — O Jerusalem
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Most of the swimming was at night.
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Woo, ifg swimming is exciting!
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2) a return to the swimming pool (swimming is the new belly-dancing
— lilliams Diary Entry
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- from Middle English swymmynge; verbal noun of swim, v.
- Verbal noun of swim, v.
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