swim

/swˈɪm/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

verb

1. travel through water
   “We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore”
2. be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
3. be dizzy or giddy
   “my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne”
4. be covered with or submerged in a liquid
   “the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy”
5. move as if gliding through water
   “this snake swims through the soil where it lives”

noun

1. the act of swimming
   “it was the swimming they enjoyed most”

Synonyms for swim

• float
• drown
• swimming

Words that rhyme with swim

• trim
• dim
• skim
• rim
• grim
• limb
• prim
• brim
• hymn
• slim
• limn
• prelim
• vim
• whim
• forelimb
• gym
• patronym
• pseudonym
• shim
• synonym
• bihm
• brimm
• chiarnim
• clim
• crim
• crimm
• flim
• grimme
• haradim
• him