swimming

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swim|ming /sw'ɪmɪŋ/
[N-UNCOUNT]
Swimming is the activity of swimming, especially as a sport or for pleasure.
...swimming lessons.swim|ming bath (swimming baths)
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A swimming baths or swimming bath is a building that contains an indoor public swimming pool. The plural swimming baths can be used to refer to one or more than one of these places. (BRIT; in AM, use pool, swimming pool)
It had been two years since I had been to the swimming baths.
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A swimming bath is a public swimming pool, especially an indoor one. (BRIT; in AM, use pool, swimming pool)swim|ming cap (swimming caps)
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A swimming cap is a rubber cap which you wear to keep your hair dry when you are swimming. (BRIT; in AM, use bathing cap)swim|ming cos|tume (swimming costumes)
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A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit. (BRIT)
= swimsuitswim|ming pool (swimming pools)
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A swimming pool is a large hole in the ground that has been made and filled with water so that people can swim in it.swim|ming trunks
[N-PLURAL] also a pair of N
Swimming trunks are the shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming. (BRIT; in AM, use trunks)syn|chro|nized swim|ming
in BRIT, also use synchronised swimming
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Synchronized swimming is a sport in which two or more people perform complicated and carefully planned movements in water in time to music.

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