Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Swimming \Swim"ming\, n.
   The act of one who swims.

Swimming \Swim"ming\, a. [From {Swim} to be dizzy.]
   Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming
   brain.

Swimming \Swim"ming\, n.
   Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. --Dryden.

Swim \Swim\, v. i. [imp. {Swam}or {Swum}; p. p. {Swum}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Swimming}.] [AS. swimman; akin to D. zwemmen, OHG.
   swimman, G. schwimmen, Icel. svimma, Dan. sw["o]mme, Sw.
   simma. Cf. {Sound} an air bladder, a strait.]
   1. To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to
      float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity
      is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.

   2. To move progressively in water by means of strokes with
      the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.

            Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to
            yonder point.                         --Shak.

   3. To be overflowed or drenched. --Ps. vi. 6.

            Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim.
                                                  --Thomson.

   4. Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.

            [They] now swim in joy.               --Milton.

   5. To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.]

            [Streams] that swim full of small fishes. --Chaucer.

Swimming \Swim"ming\, a.
   1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in,
      swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.

   2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.

   {Swimming bell} (Zo["o]l.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under
      {Siphonophora}.

   {Swimming crab} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
      marine crabs, as those of the family {Protunid[ae]}, which
      have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs
      flattened so as to serve as fins.

Source : WordNet®

swimming
     n : the act of swimming [syn: {swim}]

swim
     n : the act of swimming [syn: {swimming}]
     [also: {swum}, {swimming}, {swam}]

swimming
     adj 1: filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "watery
            eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid"
            [syn: {liquid}, {watery}]
     2: applied to a fish depicted horizontally [syn: {naiant}]

swim
     v 1: travel through water; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to
          reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank"
     2: be afloat; stay on a liquid surface; not sink [syn: {float}]
        [ant: {sink}]
     [also: {swum}, {swimming}, {swam}]

swimming
     See {swim}