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swimmings

swimmings is the plural of swimming.

Meaning of swimming

Noun (1)

swimming (countable and uncountable, plural swimmings)

  1. The act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water.
    • Triathlon competitors take part in open water swimming.

Noun (2)

swimming (countable and uncountable, plural swimmings)

  1. The state of being dizzy or in vertigo.
    • Then I take my pipe of Tabacco, sitting close by a warme fire, the space of halfe an houre and more, vntill the giddinesse and swimming in my head be past, and the medicine also haue done it feate : then I vse to gargle my mouth with a cuppe of beere, well warmed with a toste.1602, A New and Short Defense of Tabacco: with the effectes of the same: and of the right vse thereof, London: Clement Knight, “Rule”, unnumbered page

Questions about swimmings

What is swimmings the plural of?
Swimmings is the plural of swimming.

Words near swimmings in the dictionary

  1. swimming with sharks
  2. swimming-pool
  3. swimming-pools
  4. swimmingly
  5. swimmingness
  6. swimmings
  7. swimmist
  8. swimmists
  9. swimmy
  10. swimnastic
  11. swimnastics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swimmings (page history and authors); swimming (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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