Clues for the word "SWIM"
We've had 141 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 324 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on February 12, 2026.
Definition of swim
- v. i. - 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.
- v. i. - To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
- v. i. - To be overflowed or drenched.
- v. i. - Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
- v. i. - To be filled with swimming animals.
- v. t. - To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream.
- v. t. - To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.
- v. t. - To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.
- n. - The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.
- n. - The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
- n. - A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
- v. i. - To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.
Referring Clues
- Sidestroke, e.g.
- Dog-paddle, say
- Thick of things
- Enjoy the pool
- Travel in trunks?
- Go through channels?
- Do the crawl
- Triathlon leg
- Pool exercise
- Do laps, perhaps
- Go down a lane, maybe
- Do laps
- Go up the creek without a paddle?
- Sink's alternative
- Dip
- Sink opposite
- Do laps, perhaps...or a suit
- Dip in a pool
- Do it with the tide
- Do some laps at the Y
- Perform in an aquacade
- Come crawling back?
- Do laps in the pool
- Do a triathlon leg
- Take a dip
- Make like Michael Phelps
- With 71-Across, extracurricular group concerned with the starts of the answers to starred clues
- Seem to whirl
- Sink's opposite
- Enjoy a pool
- Teem
- Hit the water
- Utilize a sidestroke, e.g.
- Make for shore
- Partner of sink
- Do the backstroke
- Emulate Mark Spitz
- Start a triathlon
- Travel by sea
- Do the butterfly
- In the ___ (actively engaged)
- 1960s dance, with "the"
- Do some laps
- Crawl from lap to lap?
- Sink alternative
- Go with the flow?
- Participate in one part of a triathlon
- Take to the pool
- Emulate Michael Phelps
- Crawl, perhaps
- Take to the lake
- Cross the Rubicon
- Make like a fish
- Use the pool
- Make some waves
- Dog-paddle
- Dip in the pool
- Do the crawl, say
- Enjoy a dip
- Move in trunks
- Go for a dip
- With 40-Across, headwear for doing laps
- One way to travel
- Bathe
- Take a dip in the pool
- Crawl, say
- Workout in a lake
- Triathlon start
- Take to the water
- Go down a lane, perhaps
- Use a flutter kick
- Sink or ___
- Stay afloat
- Travel like a ray
- Show off a butterfly, perhaps
- Do the breaststroke, say
- Thick of things, in a manner of speaking
- Exercise at the Y, maybe
- Part of an exercise regimen
- Move through water
- Do the breaststroke, e.g.
- Do laps in a pool
- You might go for one at the beach
- Pool activity
- Move in water
- "Jack's Mannequin" song to backstroke to?
- What Michael Stipe goes for at night?
- Do the butterfly, perhaps?
- An angling term meaning –reel"
- Do the dog paddle, perhaps
- Propel oneself in water
- Float - feel dizzy
- Crawl, perhaps, inside nuns' wimples
- Do breaststroke
- Do breaststroke or freestyle
- Big fish in this
- Fancy missing hour after second reel
- Fishy move around Buckingham Palace by my leader
- Use a pool
- Do the butterfly or backstroke, for example
- Emulate Phelps
- Go skinny-dipping, perhaps
- Have a wet workout
- Exercise activity
- Have a reeling feeling
- Travel like a 49-Across
- Dog-paddle, e.g.
- Compete with a kick
- Triathlon component
- 1960s fad dance, with "the"
- Triathlon segment
- Do pool laps, say
- Do pool laps
- Dog-paddle or crawl
- Do the butterfly, e.g.
- Do the dog-paddle
- Learn to crawl, perhaps
- Freestyle or crawl, for example
- Do the crawl, e.g.
- Triathlon part
- Move like a fish
- Do a school activity?
- Do the backstroke, say
- Do some pool playing
- Hit the pool
- Do the first third of a triathlon
- First leg of a triathlon
- Compete in a Summer Olympics event
- Join your neighbors in their pool
- Type of suit that gets wet
- Get in the ___
- Do some exercise in a pool
- Doggy paddle, for example
- Do this or sink
- Compete in a freestyle, e.g.
- Do some strokes
- Freestyle, say
- Session at the pool
- Do laps, say
- Do the backstroke or breaststroke
- Make waves, say
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - February 12, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 26, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 23, 2026
- LA Times - December 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 06, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 21, 2025
- LA Times - November 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 05, 2025
- New York Times - September 22, 2025
- Daily American - September 08, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 20, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 05, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 13, 2025
- New York Times - June 12, 2025
- New York Times - June 03, 2025
- Daily American - May 22, 2025
- LA Times - May 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 06, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 04, 2025
- Daily American - February 22, 2025
- USA Today - February 21, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 08, 2025
- New York Times - February 04, 2025
- LA Times - January 26, 2025
- USA Today - January 19, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 01, 2025
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