natatory

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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

I had no stomach for further natatory stunts that night.

From The Land of Frozen Suns by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

It was "Old Bill" who was deficient in natatory prowess: Old Bill the sailor.

From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne

In this form the feet remain for a very long time, whilst the abdominal appendages grow into powerful natatory organs, and the eyes, which at first seemed to me to be wanting, into large hemispheres.

From Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Muller, Fritz