natation
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- natational adjective
Etymology
Origin of natation
1535–45; < Latin natātiōn- (stem of natātiō ), equivalent to natāt ( us ) (past participle of natāre to swim) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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Il pratique la natation et est végétarien – c’est la seule cause qu’il intègre dans son travail.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023
Hit this north Scottsdale natation nirvana that features two heated 25-meter pools boasting approximately 20 lanes.
From Newsweek
Indeed one of these was in flood, and they never could have crossed it had it not been for Otter's powers of natation.
From The People of the Mist by Haggard, Henry Rider
"By aid of careful auscultation," "And thinking on his late natation," "I think, I think that I deskiver," "A frog within this dear boy's liver."
From Buzz a Buzz or The Bees by Busch, Wilhelm
Never, I think, did any swimmer in like circumstances perform such a remarkable feat of natation.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 24, 1917 by Various
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