swimming

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And she stressed the importance of swimming in supervised locations: "No lifeguard, no swimming."

From BBC • May 31, 2026

As a guest, you’re going into somebody else’s house, you wanna follow their rules, you don’t wanna jump in their pool and start swimming around without asking permission.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

In recent years, toxic black dye had been put into the water at the "Blue Lagoon" to put people off swimming.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

After his release in 2019, Dong attempted to leave China again, this time by swimming to Kinmen, a group of Taiwanese-controlled islands off the Chinese mainland.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

“Aw, Mama,” Daisy said, “I don’t think there was much chance of Jay Berry drowning. I looked down in the well and he was swimming like a muskrat down there.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls