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swim

verb as in make way through water using arms, legs

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The ray is able to swim at just the right speed that water, streaming into its mouth, can form vortices between the grooved plates.

The 22-year-old, who cannot swim, said he waded through chest-high flood water.

From BBC

They need to come over and grab it for a while and they need to swim over.

From Salon

If an oarfish happens to swim up to the ocean’s surface, a sailor would see a long slithering creature with spiky protrusions on its head and could believe it was a sea monster, Paig-Tran said.

The same year his showman's instincts saw him swim two miles down the River Thames to highlight opposition to Margaret Thatcher's government policy of dumping nuclear waste at sea.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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