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natatory



ADJECTIVE
swimming
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Here are a variety of natatory — that’s swimming related — audiobooks, to dive into this summer.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

Enterprising swimming pool managers tempted thither two distinguished amateur natatory females, Gertrude Ederle, famed near Channel-swimmer, and Aileen Riggin, Olympic fancy-diving champion in 1920.

From Time Magazine Archive

A proof of his natatory powers is found in the fact that Arctic voyagers have observed him swimming about in the open sea full twenty miles from the nearest land!

From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by William Harvey

Perhaps this natatory clothing had kept him above water, while the surf had borne him to shore?

From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Jules Verne

You ought to get out of that stagnant pond of yours, and come where the natatory medium is fresh, clean, and thickly peopled with suckers, and a new run of ’em coming on right soon.

From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Herbert Quick




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