swimmer

English

A swimmer (1)

Etymology

From Middle English swimmere, equivalent to swim +‎ -er. The dumplings are so called because they are often served in stew.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈswɪm.ə(ɹ)/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈswɪm.ɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)

Noun

swimmer (plural swimmers)

1. One who swims.
   • 1918, Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism‎^[1], London: Macmillan, page 128:

     The swimmer who is an expert does not exhibit his muscular force by violent movements, but exhibits some power which is invisible and which shows itself in perfect grace and reposefulness.

   • 1994, Bruce Berger, There Was a River, Tucson, A.Z., London: The University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 61:

     In the summer of 1992, eight beaches were closed and swimmers were warned away because of colliform bacteria, caused by boaters emptying toilets directly into the lake or onto nearby shores. Park officials may soon supply the lake with floating waste disposal systems.

2. A protuberance on the leg of a horse.
3. A webfooted aquatic bird.
4. (chiefly in the plural, colloquial) A sperm.
5. (UK, informal) A Norfolk dumpling.

Derived terms

• blue swimmer crab
• ice swimmer
• little swimmer
• side swimmer
• synchronised swimmer
• synchronized swimmer
• winter swimmer

Translations

one who swims

• Albanian: notar (sq)
• Arabic: سَبَّاح m (sabbāḥ), عَوَّام m (ʕawwām)

  Moroccan Arabic: عوام m (ʕawwām)

• Armenian: լողորդ (hy) (loġord)
• Azerbaijani: üzgüçü (az), üzücü (az)
• Bulgarian: плувец m (pluvec)
• Catalan: nedador m, nedadora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 游泳者 (yóuyǒngzhě) (anyone who swims), 游泳選手 / 游泳选手 (yóuyǒng xuǎnshǒu) (as a competitor), 游泳運動員 / 游泳运动员 (yóuyǒng yùndòngyuán) (as an athlete)

• Cornish: neuvyer m, neuvyores f
• Czech: plavec (cs) m, plavkyně (cs) f
• Danish: svømmer (da) c
• Dutch: zwemmer (nl) m, zwemster (nl) f
• Estonian: ujuja
• Faroese: svimjari m
• Finnish: uimari (fi)
• French: nageur (fr) m, nageuse (fr) f
• Galician: nadador m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schwimmer (de) m, Schwimmerin (de) f
• Greek: κολυμβητής (el) m (kolymvitís)

  Ancient Greek: κολυμβητής m (kolumbētḗs)

• Haitian Creole: najè
• Hebrew: שחיין m (sakhyán), שחיינית f (sakhyanít)
• Hungarian: úszó (hu), úszónő (hu) f
• Icelandic: sundmaður m
• Irish: snámhóir m
• Italian: nuotatore (it) m, nuotatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 泳ぎ手 (およぎて, oyogite), 泳ぐ人 (およぐひと, oyogu hito)
• Korean: 수영 선수 (suyeong seonsu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مەلەوان (melewan)

  Northern Kurdish: melevan (ku) c

• Kyrgyz: сүзгүч (ky) (süzgüc)
• Latin: natator (la) m
• Latvian: peldētājs m, peldētāja f
• Lithuanian: plaukikas (lt) m, plaukikė (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Schwëmmer m, Schwëmmerin f
• Macedonian: пливач m (plivač), пливачка f (plivačka)
• Malay: perenang (ms)
• Maltese: għawwiem m
• Manx: amyltagh m, snaueder m
• Maori: kaikauhoe
• Norman: nageux m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svømmer m

  Nynorsk: symjar

• Old English: *swimmend m
• Persian: شناگر (fa) (šenâgar)
• Piedmontese: novador m
• Polish: pływak (pl) m, pływaczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: nadador (pt) m
• Romanian: înotător (ro) m, înotătoare (ro) f
• Russian: плове́ц (ru) m (plovéc), пловчи́ха (ru) f (plovčíxa)
• Scottish Gaelic: snàmhaiche m, snàmhair m
• Serbo-Croatian: plivač (sh) m, plivačica (sh) f, пливач m, пливачица f
• Seychellois Creole: nazer
• Slovene: plaválec m, plaválka f
• Spanish: nadador (es) m, nadadora (es) f
• Swedish: simmare (sv) m, simmerska (sv) f
• Tagalog: manlalangoy
• Thai: นักว่ายน้ำ (nák-wâai-náam)
• Turkish: yüzücü (tr)
• Ukrainian: плавець (uk) m (plavecʹ), плавчиня f (plavčynja)
• Vietnamese: tuyển thủ bơi lội
• Welsh: nofiwr m, nofwraig f
• Yiddish: שווימער m (shvimer)