Definition of swimming

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Swimmeret (n.) One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming..

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Pulmograde :: Pulmograde (a.) Swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medusae..
Phyllopoda :: Phyllopoda (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca including a large number of species, most of which live in fresh water. They have flattened or leaflike legs, often very numerous, which they use in swimming. Called also Branchiopoda..
Totipalmi :: Totipalmi (n.pl.) A division of swimming birds including those that have totipalmate feet.
Swim :: Swim (n.) The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming..
Oar :: Oar (n) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.
Sea Bird :: Sea bird () Any swimming bird frequenting the sea; a sea fowl.
Swimming :: Swimming (n.) The act of one who swims.
Natation :: Natation (n.) The act of floating on the water; swimming.
Remiped :: Remiped (n.) One of a group of aquatic beetles having tarsi adapted for swimming. See Water beetle.
Sagitta :: Sagitta (n.) A genus of transparent, free-swimming marine worms having lateral and caudal fins, and capable of swimming rapidly. It is the type of the class Chaetognatha..
Swimmeret :: Swimmer (n.) A swimming bird; one of the natatores.
Natatores :: Natatores (n. pl.) The swimming birds.
Palmiped :: Palmiped (n.) A swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.
Diphyozooid :: Diphyozooid (n.) One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.
Swimming :: Swimming (a.) Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes..
Plesiosaurus :: Plesiosaurus (n.) A genus of large extinct marine reptiles, having a very long neck, a small head, and paddles for swimming. It lived in the Mesozoic age..
Oar-footed :: Oar-footed (a.) Having feet adapted for swimming.
Siphonophora :: Siphonophora (n. pl.) An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others as reproductive zooids. See Illust. under Physallia, and Porpita..
Salpa :: Salpa (n.) A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See Illustration in Appendix..
Bipinnaria :: Bipinnaria (n.) The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free-swimming stage.
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