I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a driving/swimming etc lesson
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Dad said he'd pay for driving lessons as my birthday present.
a fish swims
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Red fish swam on either side of the boat.
a golf/swimming/tennis championship
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the Women's Golf Championship
a morning coffee/run/swim (= that someone does, drinks etc in the morning )
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She read the paper while drinking her morning coffee.
a swimming/bathing cap
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A swimming cap will stop you getting your hair wet.
do/run/swim a lap
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Every morning she swims 50 laps in the pool.
go for a walk/swim etc
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Let’s go for a walk.
go shopping/swimming/skiing etc
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I need to go shopping this afternoon.
swam...widths
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I swam ten widths .
swimming bath
swimming cap
swimming costume
swimming pool
swimming suit
swimming trunks
synchronized swimming
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
across
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With powerful strokes, he swam across to the pillar, which was still elevated from my own adventure.
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Once, even, a grebe swam across .
around
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For hours the magician swam around , with the normally chatty parrot perched silently on his shoulder.
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Even birds need toys - fish must have some plants and rocks to swim around .
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She jacked out so quickly the tutor's office swam around her before she knew what it was.
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She swam around and looked for a way out, but the pool was very big.
ashore
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She will not face inland, and so the Whale will not swim ashore .
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Very few of our men swam ashore , most of those who were rescued from the water being saved by small boats.
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As it was dark by now, no bullets hit them, and they began to swim ashore .
■ VERB
learn
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Maurice had never learned to swim , but this did not disturb him.
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We had to learn to swim or drown.
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Students may remember their early failures in learning to ride a bike or a skateboard, or learning to swim .
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She thinks a man like me learns his sexuality like some one learns to ride a bicycle or learns how to swim .
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July was spent at Oyster Bay, where Corinne and her playmates learned to swim by getting thrown into the water.
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Generations of Berkeley children, including Julie herself, had learned to swim in the brook, as it was called locally.
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And I could learn to swim enough, and run, if I wanted to.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tennis/golf/swimming etc professional
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Barry Wood reports Pam Shriver has always been one of the most colourful tennis professionals .
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For further details on the Wilson range for ladies, contact your local golf professional .
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From the inter-war years a small number of tennis professionals played tournaments in the United States.
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He was, as golf professionals had been for a hundred years, a serf.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dad swims fifty laps in the pool every morning.
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I didn't learn to swim until I was ten years old.
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I don't like swimming the breaststroke.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For a moment, tears swam in his eyes and he fought for control.
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In the afternoons they sunbathed and swam.
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Just as he was beginning to get worried in case she had gone too far, she turned and swam back.
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Slowly and carefully I swam round the dark walls of the castle.
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Steinkamp swam up to it and stuck her thumbs in her ears, seemingly making a childish face at it.
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To swim in it is dangerous, unnecessary and probably obscene.
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You swim a few laps, lie in the sun, eat a burger.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
take
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Roach being taken from swims just above the by pass bridge.
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Then we take a swim along the edge of the floating bog.
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About the time he had taken his reluctant swim .
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The next morning I took him for a swim .
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But as her parents took her for a swim , she collapsed without warning and died.
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This was no place to take a swim .
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They get the payback the first time they take a swim .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sink or swim
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Some people advocate leaving the jobless to sink or swim.
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A case of sink or swim.
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But it is a collective machine because they all sink or swim with her.
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It was sink or swim as a classroom teacher.
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Now it was sink or swim.
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Only one person really cared whether he sank or swam, and he was far off in Paris.
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She had been thrown in at the deep end and it was a question of sink or swim.
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The Ohio bank does not leave its newcomers to sink or swim by themselves.
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When a promising apprentice loses his claim it is usually sink or swim time.
sponsored walk/swim etc
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A sponsored walk to aid the preservation fund was held on 1st February 1992 and realised the excellent sum of £200.
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Another solo fundraising effort will be a sponsored swim by Karon Mills at Fenton Pool.
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Contributions of jars of preserves for sale at the Houghall sponsored walk should be brought to the June meeting.
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Funds to help Pauline Sparks become a teacher were raised from a sponsored walk undertaken by Hila Hyam.
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Some of these activities include sponsored walks, dances, race nights and raffles.
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The youngsters took part in an arduous sponsored swim to raise the cash.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I took off my glasses, left them on my towel on the tiles, and went for a quick swim .
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I was very disappointed to find that the family swim session has been canceled this year.
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She should also have a 30-minute swim .