泳ぐ
解説 Definition
水中を体を動かして移動する運動。レクリエーションとしても競技としても行われる活動。
To swim means to move through water by using your arms, legs, or body. It is used for people and animals in water, and it can also mean doing this as an activity or sport.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
swim はまず swimmer（泳ぐ人）や swimming（水泳）とセットで覚えると核がぶれません。『水の中を自分で進む動き』が中心で、魚にも人にも使えます。go for a swim で『ひと泳ぎする』、swim in a pool / river の形も頻出。float は『浮く』で進まなくてもよい点が違い、dive は『潜る』なので別動作。語形変化 swam, swum も一緒に固めると記憶に残ります。
Learn `swim` with the word family `swimmer` and `swimming`. Keep one clear image: moving through water by yourself. It also helps to fix the forms together: `swim - swam - swum`.
例文
I swim in the pool.
私はプールで泳ぎます。
He swims across the river.
彼は川を泳いで渡ります。
She swims to the shore.
彼女は岸まで泳ぎます。
swim の類義語・関連語
swim の語源・成り立ち Etymology
「swim」は古英語 swimman に由来し、さらにゲルマン祖語までさかのぼる語で、「水の中を動く・浮かぶ」という感覚を持つ。swimmer や swimming と同根で、もとは単に水中を進む動きだから「泳ぐ」という意味がすっとつながる。
"Swim" comes from Old English "swimman," from an older Germanic root meaning to move or float in water. At first, it referred broadly to moving through water, and that basic idea later became the modern sense of swimming. Related words like "swimmer" and "swimming" keep the same root.
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