swim
verb
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be dizzy or giddy“my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne”
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be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottomfloat
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move as if gliding through water“this snake swims through the soil where it lives”
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travel through water“We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore”
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be covered with or submerged in a liquid“the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy”drown
noun
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the act of swimming“it was the swimming they enjoyed most: they took a short swim in the pool”bathe