swimming

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   filled or brimming with tears

   swimming eyes

2. 2
   noun

   the act of swimming

   it was the swimming they enjoyed most: they took a short swim in the pool

3. 3
   noun

   The act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water.

   Triathlon competitors take part in open water swimming.

4. 4
   noun

   The state of being dizzy or in vertigo.

   Then I take my pipe of Tabacco, sitting close by a warme fire, the space of halfe an houre and more, vntill the giddinesse and swimming in my head be past, and the medicine also haue done it feate : then I vse to gargle my mouth with a cuppe of beere, well warmed with a toste.

5. 5
   adj

   applied to a fish depicted horizontally

6. 6
   verb

   present participle and gerund of swim

Etymology

From Middle English swymmynge. Equivalent to swim (“to move through water”, verb) + -ing (suffix forming gerunds).