Meaning of swim In English

• 0 to move through water by moving the body or parts of the body:

  • We spent the day on the beach but it was too cold to go swimming.

  • Her ambition is to swim (across) the English Channel.

  • I swam two miles this morning.

  • The salad was swimming in oil.

• 1 (of an object) to seem to move around:

  • Getting up too suddenly made the room swim before her eyes.

  • After the second or third drink, my head began to swim.

• 2 a time when you swim:

  • Let's go for/have a swim this afternoon.

• 3 to move through water by moving parts of the body:

  • [ I ] He jumped in the river and swam.

  • [ T ] Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim the English Channel.