SWIMMING
Dictionary entry overview: What does swimming mean?
• SWIMMING (noun)
The noun SWIMMING has 1 sense:
1. the act of swimming
Familiarity information: SWIMMING used as a noun is very rare.
• SWIMMING (adjective)
The adjective SWIMMING has 2 senses:
1. filled or brimming with tears
2. applied to a fish depicted horizontally
Familiarity information: SWIMMING used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SWIMMING (noun)
Meaning:
The act of swimming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
swim; swimming
Context examples:
it was the swimming they enjoyed most / they took a short swim in the pool
Hypernyms ("swimming" is a kind of...):
aquatics; water sport (sports that involve bodies of water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "swimming"):
bathe (the act of swimming)
skinny-dip (a naked swim)
dip; plunge (a brief swim in water)
dive; diving (a headlong plunge into water)
floating; natation (the act of someone who floats on the water)
skin diving; skin-dive (underwater swimming with a breathing apparatus)
• SWIMMING (adjective)
Meaning:
Filled or brimming with tears
Synonyms:
swimming; liquid
Context examples:
swimming eyes / sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid
Similar:
tearful (filled with or marked by tears)
Meaning:
Applied to a fish depicted horizontally
Synonyms:
naiant; swimming
Similar:
horizontal (parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line)
Domain category:
heraldry (the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies)
