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Sports vs Swimming - What's the difference?

sports | swimming |

As nouns the difference between sports and swimming

is that sports is while swimming is the action of the verb "to swim".

As a verb swimming is

.

sports

English

(wikipedia sports)

Noun

(head)

    • Derived terms

    (sport plural) * air sports * disabled sports * parasports * sportscaster * water sports * watersports * winter sports

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sport)
  • (Reductive) To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question. ("There's a lot of sportsing happening in Brazil this summer", said of the 2014 FIFA World Cup).

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    swimming

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The action of the verb "to swim".
    • the swimming of my head the day after heavy drinking
  • The activity of moving oneself through water using one's arms and legs while buoyed up by the water, carried out by humans for amusement, exercise, sport or entertainment.

    • Related terms

    * swimming baths * swimming pool * synchronised swimming, synchronized swimming