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nonswimmer

/ nɒnˈswɪmə /

noun

  1. a person who cannot swim

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“This is akin to taking a nonswimmer, dropping him in the middle of the ocean and hoping he does well,” Day said in a phone interview.

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The nonswimmer holds on to the names of these villains forever — along with the secret belief that the real culprit was his or her own fear.

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The requirements sound intimidating to me, a nonswimmer, and even Flood thought swimming 300 yards without stopping sounded like a lot, especially at the beginning.

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Dave Benjamin, executive director of the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project, said one of the most important lessons his organization tries to convey during water safety training is that if a child is a nonswimmer, supervision should be in the water at arm's reach.

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Swimming and the Fear Factor Annalyn Barbier’s daughter was 6 years old and a nonswimmer when she was invited to spend a week at a friend’s home, which had a pool.

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