"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
  • Then, working with her feet and her one free arm, she began to swim backwards, towing Sally's floating form.
  • The amplitude that they move their body through allows them to swim backwards.
  • "I swim backwards and I turn and something cracked," he said.
  • Unlike most cetaceans, they are capable of swimming backwards.
  • A fish ("about the size of a sunfish but much bigger") which swims backwards to keep the water out of its eyes.
  • The larva swims backwards, with its tail upwards, spinning slowly as it goes.
  • It may also stabilize the shrimp when it swims backwards.
  • Another is a means of stopping quickly; when Ecco has already stopped, the same buttons can make him swim backwards.
  • Inside it some potatoes were idly swimming backwards and forwards.
  • These cells cannot swim backwards due to the nature of their propulsion.
3. swim backward = pływaj do tyłu swim backward
(9) freely, free, actually
Kolokacji: 3
(11) directly, straight
Kolokacji: 2
(12) happily, successfully
Kolokacji: 2

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