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WATER SPORT

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• WATER SPORT (noun)
The noun WATER SPORT has 1 sense:

1. sports that involve bodies of water

Familiarity information: WATER SPORT used as a noun is very rare.

• WATER SPORT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Sports that involve bodies of water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

aquatics; water sport

Hypernyms ("water sport" is a kind of...):

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Domain member category:

fin (propel oneself through the water in a finning motion)

paddle (swim like a dog in shallow water)

crawl (swim by doing the crawl)

breaststroke (swim with the face down and extend the arms forward and outward while kicking with the leg)

backstroke (swim on one's back)

dive (plunge into water)

belly-flop (dive so that one hits the water with one's belly)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water sport"):

swim; swimming (the act of swimming)

surfboarding; surfing; surfriding (the sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave)

water-skiing (skiing on water while being towed by a motorboat)

"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the bone."
(English proverb)
"A fish cannot live without water."
(Albanian proverb)
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
(Arabic proverb)
"Many small creeks make a big river."
(Danish proverb)

Useful links:
What does athletics mean?
fin definition
What does crawl mean?
dive definition
What does swim mean?

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