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# swimming

«swimming» in Mova's school dictionary: **The sport or activity of moving through water using your…** — 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

noun (swimming — uncountable); verb form (-ing of swim: swim, swims, swam, swum, swimming); adjective use (a swimming pool, swimming lessons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The sport or activity of moving through water using your arms and legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swimming/#m1)

2) Moving through water right now (the -ing form of swim): «The ducks are swimming». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swimming/#m2)

3) Used before a noun for things meant for swimming: a swimming pool, a swimming costume. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swimming/#m3)

4) Of the head or eyes: feeling dizzy or full of tears (less common: «my head is swimming»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swimming/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety: swimming lessons, swimming pools, beach and river safety (swim between the flags, never swim alone, an adult watching). In PE it is a sport with strokes like front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke. In science: fish and many animals are swimming creatures. Phrases: go swimming, swimming pool, swimming costume (UK), swimsuit or bathing suit (US), swimming trunks, swimming lessons, swimming club.

### examples

- I go swimming every Saturday morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swimming/#x1)
- Swimming is good exercise for the heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swimming/#x2)
- We had a swimming lesson at the leisure centre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swimming/#x3)
- The fish were swimming round and round the tank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swimming/#x4)
- Only go swimming when a lifeguard or adult is watching. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swimming/#x5)
- Don't forget your swimming goggles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swimming/#x6)
- In Australia many children learn swimming at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swimming/#x7)
- The pool is closed for swimming after dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swimming/#x8)
- My head was swimming after the spinning ride. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swimming/#x9)
- Pinocchio went on swimming close to shore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swimming/#x10)

### note

Double m: swim → swimming, swimmer. Past: swam (I swam yesterday); past participle: swum (I have swum a mile). Do not write «swiming» or «swimed». «Swimming» as a sport is uncountable: no «a swimming». Safety myth: waiting an hour after eating is not a strict rule, but never swim alone or in unknown water. In maths problems it often comes with laps or lengths: 4 lengths of a 25 m pool = 100 m.

### In the corpora

- [Think of a child finishing swimming lessons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/30-who-you-are-what-you-will-do/3/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [Sea turtles cannot pull their heads or flippers into their shells, because their streamlined swimming shells have no room inside.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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