What is the meaning of swim?

noun

• The act of swimming.
  • usage: "it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool"
  • synonyms: swimming

verb

• Travel through water.
  • usage: "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank"
• Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom.
  • synonyms: float
• Be dizzy or giddy.
  • usage: "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne"
• Be covered with or submerged in a liquid.
  • usage: "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"
  • synonyms: drown
• Move as if gliding through water.
  • usage: "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"