swim
verb (used without object)
to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
am swimming
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present progressiveof swim (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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When I dream that I’m flying, I need to jump and use my arms as if I am swimming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024
“But now I feel like I am swimming in it. You spend so much time in denial, it can be hard to break out of that.”
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017
Honestly, though, I feel like I am swimming against the current—lately, I have seen a forgetting and dismissal, in academia, of their work; it is as if their insights are somehow passé.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2012
"I knew with the way I am swimming races at the moment I had to go out and give it everything from the start," she said.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2010
Immediately, I feel the effects—a kind of floatiness, as though I am swimming through air.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
