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

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

From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Verne, Jules

His natatory powers appear to have no limit: at all events, he has been met with swimming about in open water full twenty miles from either ice or land.

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist

Confident in his natatory powers, he had at first believed this feat to be not only possible, but probable and easy.

From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Reid, Mayne