Tra từ swim - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

see also SPORT, SEA
- to move your body through water: swim*; the name of this activity or sport: swimming (noun U)
Can you swim? ◎ Swimming's my favourite sport.
- to swim for pleasure: go* swimming; a particular occasion of swimming: swim
I'm going swimming tomorrow. ◎ I had a swim this morning. ◎ Are you coming for a swim?
- a person who is swimming or who swims regularly: swimmer
- to swim in the sea, a lake or river: bathe; the name of the activity: bathing (noun U)
The sea was beautiful, but it was too cold to bathe. ◎ This beach is not suitable for bathing.
- a quick swim: dip
Shall we go for a dip? ◎ to take a dip
- one of the movements you make when you are swimming: stroke
- to stay on the surface of the water, without making swimming strokes: float
to float on your back
- to keep your body floating by moving your legs under you: tread* water
I had to tread water for thirty minutes before a boat came and picked me up.
- if you cannot swim and you go below the surface of the sea, you go* under
She went under three times before the lifeguard pulled her out.
- to die in water because you cannot breathe: drown, be drowned
- if you are in water that is too deep for you to stand up in, you are out of your depth
Enjoy your swim, but take care not to go out of your depth.
- below the surface of water: underwater (adjective, adverb)
an underwater camera ◎ I love swimming underwater.
※ diving
- to jump into the water with your head first: dive*; the act of diving into water: dive
Larry dived into the river. ◎ a diving competition
- the activity or sport of diving into water: diving (noun U)
- a person who swims underwater: diver
- to dive, fall, jump, etc into water suddenly and with force: plunge (into sth)
She plunged into the icy water.
- to come to the surface of the water from below: surface, come* up
He surfaced after two minutes underwater.
- a sport where a person swims underwater with special breathing equipment: scuba-diving (noun U), skin-diving (noun U)
- a swimmer who works underwater wearing special rubber clothes and using breathing equipment: frogman (plural frogmen)
※ swimming pools
- a pool that is built especially for people to swim in: (swimming) pool
an indoor/outdoor pool ◎ The pool is two metres deep.
- a public swimming pool, usually indoors: swimming bath, (swimming) baths (noun plural)
- a board at the side of a swimming pool from which a person can dive into the water: diving board
※ things people wear when they are swimming
- a piece of clothing that a woman wears to go swimming: swimsuit, swimming costume
- a piece of clothing, in two pieces, that some women wear for swimming: bikini
- a short tube that a swimmer can use to breathe through when swimming below the surface of the water: snorkel
- a rubber suit that covers the whole of the body, used by underwater swimmers and people doing water sports: wetsuit
※ safety
- a ring that floats and that you throw to a person who has fallen in the water to stop them going underwater: lifebelt, lifebuoy
- a person at a beach or swimming pool whose job is to rescue people who are in difficulties in the water: lifeguard