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

They are free and natatory when young, but in the adult state attached to rocks or some floating substance.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The maxillipedes, of which the third pair is often still wanting, are not yet brought into the service of the mouth, but appear in the form of biramose natatory feet.

From Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Muller, Fritz

I had confidence enough in my natatory powers to make me easy on that score.

From The Boy Tar by Read, Edward