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Adjective swimming has 2 senses

liquid, swimming, watery - filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "watery eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid"
Antonyms: tearless, dry-eyed (indirect, via tearful)
naiant, swimming - applied to a fish depicted horizontally
Antonyms: vertical, perpendicular (indirect, via inclined, horizontal)
Antonym: inclined (indirect, via horizontal, vertical)

Noun swimming has 1 sense

swimming, swim - the act of swimming
--₁ is a kind of water sport, aquatics
--₁ has particulars:
bathe; dip, plunge; dive, diving; floating; skin diving, skin-dive

Derived form: verb swim₁

Verb swim has 2 senses

swim - travel through water; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank"
--₁ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote

Derived forms: noun swim₁, noun swimmer₂, noun swimmer₁, noun swimming₁
Sample sentences:
These men swim across the river
These men swim the river
float, swim - be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink
--₂ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote

Derived form: noun swim₁
Sample sentence:
These cars won't swim