swimming
adjective
- Self-propelled movement of an organism from one location to another through water, often by means of active fin movement.
noun
- sport
- self propulsion of a person through water or other liquid
- Self-propelled movement of an organism from one location to another through water, often by means of active fin movement.
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈswɪmɪŋ/ / /ˈswɪmiŋ/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English swim Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English swimming From swim (“to be dizzy”, verb) + -ing (suffix forming gerunds).
- The state of being dizzy or in vertigo.
“Then I take my pipe of Tabacco, sitting close by a warme fire, the space of halfe an houre and more, vntill the giddinesse and swimming in my head be past, and the medicine also haue done it feate : then I vse to gargle my mouth with a cuppe of beere, well warmed with a toste.”
“But when the worms are killed with the aforesaid medicines, you must driue them out without delay : for there proceedeth a vicious exhalation from them, which both destroyeth appetite, and hurteth digestion, and being lifted vpward, it causeth swimmings, and other euils.”
verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
- present participle and gerund of swim