Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved...
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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...
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This is the top 15 male Olympic swimming gold medals. This is the top 15 female Olympic swimming gold medalists: All swimmers with at least four individual...
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Swimming at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France took place between 29 August and 7 September 2024. There were 71 male, 64 female and 6 mixed open...
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A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities...
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swimming pool in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A swimming pool is an artificially enclosed body of water that can be used for swimming. Swimming pool...
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swimming competition, defined by the rules of World Aquatics, in which competitors are subject to only a few limited restrictions on their swimming stroke...
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Synchronized swimming (in British English, synchronised swimming), also known as artistic swimming, is a sport where swimmers perform a synchronized choreographed...
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Look up swimming in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Swimming is the self-propulsion of a human through water or another liquid, usually for recreation...
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swimming is the practice of swimming without clothing, whether in natural bodies of water or in swimming pools. A colloquial term for nude swimming is...
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Swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings from around 7,000 years ago. In...
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The World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m), formerly known as the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), also referred to as 'short course worlds'...
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This is the complete list of men's Olympic medalists in swimming. Note: since 1984, swimmers who competed only in preliminary rounds also received medals...
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Aquatics at the 1990 Commonwealth Games consisted of diving, swimming and synchronized swimming. They were held in Henderson, New Zealand. * Host nation...
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LEN European Aquatics Championships (redirect from European Swimming Championships)
included 5 aquatics disciplines: swimming (long course/50m pool), diving, synchronised swimming, open water swimming and high diving. Prior to 1999, the...
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Portunus sanguinolentus (redirect from Three-spot swimming crab)
Portunus sanguinolentus, the three-spot swimming crab , blood-spotted swimming crab or red-spotted swimming crab, is a large crab found throughout estuaries...
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Swimming has been a sport at every modern Summer Olympics. It has been open to women since 1912. At the Olympics, swimming has the second-highest number...
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Swimming to Cambodia, also known as Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia, is a 1987 American concert film written by and starring Spalding Gray, and directed...
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54 events: Diving (10) Swimming (42) Synchronized swimming (2) Announcing for the Diving, Swimming and Synchronized swimming was done by local swimmer...
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World Aquatics Championships (redirect from World Swimming Championships)
Championships for six aquatic disciplines: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. The championships are staged...
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Swimming was contested at the 1986 Asian Games in Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool, Seoul, South Korea from 21 September to 26 September 1986. New Straits Times...
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Aquatics GB (redirect from British Swimming (organisation))
Aquatics GB (formerly British Swimming) is the national governing body of swimming, water polo, artistic swimming, diving and open water in Great Britain...
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Nude swimming in US indoor pools was common for men and boys from the late 1880s until the early 1970s, but rare for women and girls. For much of that...
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Medley swimming is a combination of four different swimming strokes (freestyle (front crawl), backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) into one race. This...
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Artistic swimming (known as synchronised swimming until 2017) has been an event at the Summer Olympics since the 1984 Games. The current Olympic program...
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"Swimming Pools (Drank)" is a song by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was released on July 31, 2012, as the lead single (second overall) from his major-label...
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Portunidae (redirect from Swimming crabs)
Portunidae is a family of crabs which contains the swimming crabs. Its members include many well-known shoreline crabs, such as the blue crab (Callinectes...
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Human swimming typically consists of repeating a specific body motion or swimming stroke to propel the body forward. There are many kinds of strokes,...
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Artistic swimming (formerly called synchronized swimming) competitions at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, USA are scheduled to be in the Long...
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The swimming competitions at the 2017 SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur took place at National Aquatic Centre in Bukit Jalil. It was one of four aquatic sports...
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