Swim
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.
To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
To be overflowed or drenched.
Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
To be filled with swimming animals.
To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream.
To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.
To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.
The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.
The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.
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Swim Quotations
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
Margaret Thatcher
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust
Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
Joan Rivers
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan Watts
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Frida Kahlo
If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.
Michael Phelps
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Neil Armstrong
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Swim Translations
swim in Afrikaans is swem, dryf
swim in Dutch is zwemmen, drijven
swim in Finnish is uida
swim in French is nager, baignade, nagent, nageons, nagez
swim in German is schwimmen
swim in Italian is nuotare, fanno il bagno
swim in Portuguese is nadar, nadada
swim in Spanish is ba ar, nadar
swim in Swedish is simma
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