natatory
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of natatory
C18: from Late Latin natātōrius, from natāre to swim
Example Sentences
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Here are a variety of natatory — that’s swimming related — audiobooks, to dive into this summer.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2022
Enterprising swimming pool managers tempted thither two distinguished amateur natatory females, Gertrude Ederle, famed near Channel-swimmer, and Aileen Riggin, Olympic fancy-diving champion in 1920.
From Time Magazine Archive
His natatory powers appear to have no limit: at all events, he has been met with swimming about in open water full twenty miles from either ice or land.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist
About the degree of your natatory powers we needn’t dispute.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne
I had confidence enough in my natatory powers to make me easy on that score.
From The Boy Tar by Read, Edward
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