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# swim

«swim» in Mova's school dictionary: **to move through water using your arms and legs** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, noun (swim, swims, swam, swum, swimming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To swim means to move through water using your arms and legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swim/#m1)

2) A swim is a time when you swim: go for a swim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swim/#m2)

3) Fish swim using their fins and tails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swim/#m3)

4) «My head is swimming» means you feel dizzy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swim/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: an action with distance, laps or time (swim 10 laps, swim for 30 minutes); laps or meters per day is a rate. Sport: swimming lessons, swimming pool, strokes like front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke. Safety: swim only where a lifeguard can see you, between the flags, never alone.

### examples

- Lily swims 8 laps each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swim/#x1)
- He swam 200 meters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swim/#x2)
- They swim for 45 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swim/#x3)
- How many laps did she swim in a week? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swim/#x4)
- Always swim between the red and yellow flags. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swim/#x5)
- Fish swim in schools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swim/#x6)
- We go for a swim after school on Fridays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swim/#x7)
- I learned to swim when I was five. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swim/#x8)
- “Shall we swim or fly, Peter?” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swim/#x9)

### note

Irregular: swim, swam, swum; doubles the m: swimming, swimmer. The action of the story; laps or meters per day is a rate, so the total is days × laps. Trap: a lap may be one length or there and back; read the problem.

### In the corpora

- [Fake photos of sharks swimming in flooded streets have spread after many hurricanes; they were edited or taken from somewhere else.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/21-filters-edits-and-fake-photos/7/)
- [Tigers love water and swim well; Sundarbans tigers swim between islands in the mangroves of India and Bangladesh and can swim several kilometres.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/10/)
- [Elephants can swim and use the trunk as a snorkel, keeping only its tip above the water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/10/)
- [Sharks have no swim bladder, so many sink if they stop swimming.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/12/)
- [The octopus's body heart stops while it swims, so swimming tires it quickly, and octopuses mostly crawl over the rocks instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «swim» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swim/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.