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rescue swimmer

rescue swimmer noun: a person who rescues people who are stranded in water.

Noun

rescue swimmer (plural rescue swimmers)

  1. A person who rescues people who are stranded in water.
    • They had already found one life raft and lowered the rescue swimmer into the freezing ocean. It was empty. They left it inflated in case survivors reached it.2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian

Forms of rescue swimmer

pluralrescue swimmers

Questions about rescue swimmer

What does rescue swimmer mean?
Rescue swimmer means a person who rescues people who are stranded in water.
What part of speech is rescue swimmer?
Rescue swimmer is a noun.
What is the plural of rescue swimmer?
The plural of rescue swimmer is rescue swimmers.

Words near rescue swimmer in the dictionary

  1. rescue missions
  2. rescue parties
  3. rescue party
  4. rescue service
  5. rescue services
  6. rescue swimmer
  7. rescue therapies
  8. rescue therapy
  9. rescued
  10. rescuee
  11. rescuees

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