to have a swimdarse un baño;nadar;I had a lovely swim this morningme di un baño estupendo esta mañana;after a two-kilometre swimdespués de nadar dos kilómetros;it's a long swim back to the shorehay un buen trecho a nado hasta la playa;that was a long swim for a childeso fue mucho nadar para un niño;to go for a swimir a nadar or a bañarse
to be in the swimestar al corriente or al tanto
to keep in the swimmantenerse al día
verbo transitivo
1[+stretch of water]pasar a nado;cruzar a nado
he was the first man to swim the English channelfue el primer hombre que cruzó a nado el Canal de la Mancha
2[+length, race]nadar
he can swim two lengthspuede nadar dos largos
he used to swim crawl but now he's changed to breastroke
she swam ten lengths of the poolse hizo diez largos en la piscina;to swim (the) crawlnadar a crol;before I had swum ten strokesantes de haber dado diez brazadas;she can't swim a strokeno sabe nadar en absoluto;she swam the 400 metres medleynadó los 400 metros a cuatro estilos
verbo intransitivo
1[+person, fish]nadar
I can't swimno sé nadar
to swim across a riverpasar or cruzar un río a nado
we managed to swim ashorelogramos llegar nadando hasta la orilla
the barriers are lethal to fish trying to swim upstream
then we swam backluego volvimos (nadando)
we shall have to swim for ittendremos que echarnos al agua;tendremos que salvarnos nadando
to go swimmingir a nadar or bañarse
to learn to swimaprender a nadar
to swim out to seaalejarse nadando de la playa
to swim under waternadar debajo del agua;bucear
the shark swam awaywe used to swim across the lake when we were children
to swim against the stream or tidenadar contra corriente
to swim with the stream or tidedejarse llevar por la corriente
2(float)flotar
the meat was swimming in gravyla carne flotaba or nadaba en la salsa;her eyes were swimming with tearstenía los ojos inundados de lágrimas
some food was swimming in his cup of coffee
to be swimming in moneynadar en la abundancia
3(dizzily)(reel)[+room, head]dar vueltas
my head is swimmingme estoy mareando;me da vueltas la cabeza;everything swam before my eyestodo parecía que daba vueltas ante mis ojos
he felt so hot he couldn't breathe, and the room swam