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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  1. noun The act, sport, or technique of one that swims.
  2. adjective Relating to or used in swimming.
  3. 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
  • Most of the swimming was at night. —  CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2004
  • Woo, ifg swimming is exciting! —  j-gan Diary Entry
  • 2) a return to the swimming pool (swimming is the new belly-dancing —  lilliams Diary Entry
 

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Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from Middle English swymmynge; verbal noun of swim, v.
  2. Verbal noun of swim, v.

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/ (swĭmˈĭng)/
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