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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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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social, religious and legal attitudes to swimming and swimwear. In classical antiquity and in most cultures, swimming was either in the nude or the swimmer...
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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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Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water or other liquid, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport...
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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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The International Swimming Hall of Fame and Museum (ISHOF) is a history museum and hall of fame, located at One Hall of Fame Drive, Fort Lauderdale, Florida...
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This is a list of swimming competitions conducted in pool and open water environments. Pool competitions include long course metres (50 metre pool), short...
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Freestyle is a category of swimming competition, defined by the rules of World Aquatics, in which competitors are subject to only a few limited restrictions...
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Swimming Association. Retrieved 13 June 2024. "English Channel: The history of swimming the Channel". BBC Newsround. 27 August 2019. Retrieved 6 September...
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principle is that swimming is a sport essentially based on the physical performance of the athlete". Goggles were used in the crossing of the English Channel...
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November 2009). Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America (Kindle ed.). 99: The University of North Carolina Press.{{cite book}}: CS1...
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Butterfly stroke (redirect from Butterfly swimming)
Swimming Hall of Fame saying he did but Francois Oppenheim's book "The History of Swimming" saying he didn't. In 1935, presumably for the removal of ambiguity...
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the UK swimming at natural swimming holes has a long history and has recently become known as "wild swimming", especially since the publication of bestselling...
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International Swimming Hall of Fame is a history museum and hall of fame, serving as the central point for the study of the history of swimming in the United...
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(16 February 2016). "The History of Men's Swimwear". Simply Swim UK. Retrieved 18 December 2020. Gage, Stephen (1926). "Swimming Pools and Other Public...
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Swimming with Sharks (also known as The Boss and Buddy Factor) is a 1994 American satire film written and directed by George Huang and starring Kevin Spacey...
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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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Clinical suspicion of P. aeruginosa folliculitis usually begins with a combination of the rash's appearance and a history of swimming or hot tub use 24-72...
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Swimming in the United States began competitively in the 1880s. The first nationally recognized swimming organization was the Amateur Athletic Union in...
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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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Nude recreation (section Swimming)
Retrieved 2020-03-22. Wiltse, Jeffrey (2003). "Contested waters: A History of Swimming Pools in America". ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. ProQuest 305343056...
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meters) swimming pool before, swam his heat of the 100 m freestyle on 19 September in a time of 1:52.72. This was the slowest time in Olympic history by far...
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Caeleb Dressel (category Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming)
were the other four. He also became the first male swimmer in the history of swimming at the modern Olympic Games, since 1896, to win gold medals in the...
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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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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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USA Swimming is the national governing body for competitive swimming in the United States. It is charged with selecting the United States Olympic Swimming...
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Open water swimming is a swimming discipline which takes place in outdoor bodies of water such as open oceans, lakes, and rivers. Competitive open water...
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Winter swimming is the activity of swimming during the winter season, typically in outdoor locations (open water swimming) or in unheated pools or lidos...
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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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