Swimming

Definition

swim /swÇm/ v ( -mm- ; pt swam /swæm/ ; pp swum swʌm) ၁။ (က) ေရကူးသည္။ I can't swim. ❍ She swims like a fish (ie very well). ❍ Let's go swimming. ❍ swim across the river ❍ swim underwater/ upstream/ ashore. (ခ) (ဖားကူး၊ လိပ္ျပာကူး) ကူးသည္။ swim breast-stroke. (ဂ) (ေရ)ကူးသည္။ swim two lengths of the pool ❍ swim the Channel. ၂။ (usu in the continuous tenses) (က) ~ (with sth ) ျပည့္လွ်မ္း သည္။ Her eyes were swimming (with tears). ❍ The bathroom floor was swimming with water. (ခ) ~ in sth ေပါေလာေပၚေနသည္။ meat swimming in gravy. ၃။ (က) ခ်ာလပတ္လည္သည္။ The room swam before his eyes/ around him. (ခ) ခ်ာခ်ာလည္သည္။ မူးေနာက္သည္။ The whisky made his head swim. n ေရကူးျခင္း။ go for/ have a swim. ❏ in/ out of the swim [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေခတ္ေရစီးေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ လိုက္ႏိုင္၊ မလိုက္ႏိုင္။ Although I'm retired, voluntary work keeps me in the swim (of things). ❏ swimmer n ေရကူးသမား။ a strong/ good/ fast swimmer. ❏ swimming-bath n (esp pl ) ( Brit ) မိုးလံုေလလံု ေရကူး ကန္။ ❏ swimming-costume (also esp Brit bathing-costume , US also bathing-suit ) n ေရကူးဝတ္စံု။ ❏ swimming-pool n ေရကူးကန္။ ❏ swimming-trunks n [pl] ေရကူးေဘာင္းဘီ။ a pair of swimming-trunks.

Examples

1. Pollution has made it unsafe to swim in the lake.
2. Can you swim?
3. He swam 500 metres to shore.
4. The first woman to swim the English Channel
5. He can swim breaststroke and backstroke.