swim

To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.

We were now all upon a Level, as to our travelling; being unshipp’d, for our Bark would swim no farther, and she was too heavy to carry on our Backs […]

He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.

To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid.

swimming in self-pity

a bare few bits of meat swimming in watery sauce

To move around freely because of excess space.

A fam'd Sur-tout he wears, which once was blue, / And his foot swims in a capacious shoe.

To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to use a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.

For exercise, we like to swim laps around the pool.

I want to swim the 200-yard breaststroke in the finals.

To cause to swim.

to swim a horse across a river

Half of the guinea pigs were swum daily.

An act or instance of swimming.

I'm going for a swim.

She had a quick swim in the bay.

The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.

A part of a stream much frequented by fish.

A dance or dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in imitation of various swimming strokes, such as freestyle, breaststroke, etc.

C'mon everybody! C'mon in! Bobby's goin' to show you how to do the swim.

The flow of events; being in the swim of things.

With the road ahead now clear, Mann […] is plunging back into the swim of business in a hurry.

A dizziness; swoon.