swimming pool

noun

1. a tank or large artificial basin, as of concrete, for filling with water for swimming.

swimming pool

noun

1. an artificial pool for swimming

Word History and Origins

Origin of swimming pool¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

And it just so happened, we found a hotel downtown that had a full-sized swimming pool inside the room, so there’s pictures on my Instagram of us in that pool, skinny dipping and drinking champagne.

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I have a small main house and a guesthouse, with 30 apple trees, two dogs and a swimming pool.

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According to The Sun, they have been offered the use of a luxurious palace in Abu Dhabi - complete with six bedrooms, a gym and swimming pool - by its ruler Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

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He spent his adolescence in Palm Springs, a town with “a thousand swimming pools and the constant hum of air conditioners,” in a basement apartment near the freeway.

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One length of an Olympic swimming pool, all in a single breath.

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