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Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake).
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 February 2025. Self-propulsion through water This article is about standard human swimming. For competitive swimming, see Swimming (sport). For animal swimming, see Aquatic locomotion. For other uses, see Swimming (disambiguation) and Swimmer (disambiguation). A competitive swimmer performing the ...
Swim (Caribou album), a 2010 album by Caribou; Swim (Emily's Army EP), 2014; Swim, a 1996 EP by the band Feeder, later re-released as an 11-track album; Swim (July for Kings album), the Ohio-based rock band's 2002 major-label debut album; Swim, a 2008 album from indie band Whispertown 2000; S W I M, a 2015 album by Die! Die!
Nyad was born in New York City on August 22, 1949, to Lucy Winslow Curtis (1925–2007) [10] and stockbroker William L. Sneed Jr. Her mother was a great-granddaughter of Charlotte N. Winslow, the inventor of Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a popular morphine-based medicine for children's teething pain that was manufactured from 1849 until the 1930s. [11]
Barbara explains, “This second grief swim that Tahlequah is undergoing gives us an opportunity to say, ‘Alright, there’s an outpouring of compassion around the world.
In 1922, Johnny Weissmuller became the first person to swim the 100 m in less than a minute, using a six kicks per cycle Australian crawl. Johnny Weissmuller started the golden age of swimming, winning five Olympic medals and 36 national championships and never losing a race in his ten-year career, until he retired from swimming and started his ...
A swim instructor has been charged months after a 4-year-old boy drowned while in her care, authorities in Georgia say.. Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation served Lexie C. Tenhuisen ...
First quadruple amputee to swim the English Channel. [79] England to France to England to France to England United States Sarah Thomas: 2019 54:10 First person to swim the channel four ways non-stop. [80] England to France United Kingdom Gillian Castle 2023 13:53 First person with a stoma to swim the Channel. [81]