n. 25B6; noun
a swarm of bees : HIVE, flock, collection.
a swarm of gendarmes : CROWD, multitude, horde, host, mob, gang, throng, mass, army, troop, herd, pack; poetic/literary myriad.
25B6; verb reporters were swarming all over the place : FLOCK, crowd, throng, surge, stream.
25A0; be swarming with BE CROWDED WITH, be thronged with, be overrun with, be full of, abound in, be teeming with, bristle with, be alive with, be crawling with, be infested with, overflow with, be prolific in, be abundant in; informal be thick with.