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

Thus in the 'Origin,' page 440, there is a description of a larval cirripede, "with six pairs of beautifully constructed natatory legs, a pair of magnificent compound eyes, and extremely complex antennae."

From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

You ought to get out of that stagnant pond of yours, and come where the natatory medium is fresh, clean, and thickly peopled with suckers, and a new run of ’em coming on right soon.

From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Quick, Herbert

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

From The Boy Tar by Read, Edward