"swim" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

swim verbo

swim + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 19
swim laps • swim several miles • swim team • swim the leg • swim the way • ...
verbo + swim
Kolokacji: 12
learn to swim • try to swim • start swimming • begin swimming • begin to swim • ...
swim + preposición
Kolokacji: 42
swim through • swim out • swim up • swim across • swim off • ...
swim + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 55
swim away • swim ashore • swim slowly • swim well • swim faster • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 12
(1) away, forth
Kolokacji: 2
(5) upstream, downstream
Kolokacji: 2
(6) naked, nude
Kolokacji: 2
(7) strongly, powerfully
Kolokacji: 2
(8) forward, backwards, backward
Kolokacji: 3
1. swim forward = pływaj do przodu swim forward
2. swim backwards = pływaj do tyłu swim backwards
3. swim backward = pływaj do tyłu swim backward
  • He has participated in it before, but this year he'll swim backward (the backstroke) and then run the marathon backward.
  • "I've never heard that cliché," Raymond said, swimming backward again.
  • "Okay, follow me in," he said as he held the sticks apart and swam backward from the docking collar.
  • However, when they flee, they swim backward quickly by curling and uncurling their abdomen.
  • Rordray was swimming backward into a corner of the ballroom.
  • They swam swiftly both backward and forward with rapid swishes, reversing their fins.
  • Black bands on the mantle, arms limp, swimming rapidly backward: Look at me.
  • Or they would swim backward with false eye spots and arms held together and waved like the tail of a fish.
  • The little dinosaurs are not without ambivalence in their stirrings: they swim backward, face toward home, body toward the unknown.
  • Bolan swam backward as the knife lunged toward his chest.
(9) freely, free, actually
Kolokacji: 3
(11) directly, straight
Kolokacji: 2
(12) happily, successfully
Kolokacji: 2

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