natation
Example Sentences
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Hit this north Scottsdale natation nirvana that features two heated 25-meter pools boasting approximately 20 lanes.
From Newsweek
But, even as many sailors cannot swim a stroke, so many an inlander, born and brought up within sight of fresh water, has never taken the trouble to grasp the simplest rudiments of natation.
From Further Adventures of Lad by Albert Payson Terhune
Indeed one of these was in flood, and they never could have crossed it had it not been for Otter's powers of natation.
From The People of the Mist by Henry Rider Haggard
This animal is rendered more terrific from the velocity of his powers of natation, thus being able to discharge its thunder far and near.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
"By aid of careful auscultation," "And thinking on his late natation," "I think, I think that I deskiver," "A frog within this dear boy's liver."
From Buzz a Buzz or The Bees by Wilhelm Busch