Phenomena and Processes

Swimming

An activity in which the body is propelled through water by specific movement of the arms and/or the legs. Swimming as propulsion through water by the movement of limbs, tail, or fins of animals is often studied as a form of PHYSICAL EXERTION or endurance.

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An activity in which the body is propelled through water by specific movement of the arms and/or the legs. Swimming as propulsion through water by the movement of limbs, tail, or fins of animals is often studied as a form of PHYSICAL EXERTION or endurance.

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, injuries, legislation & jurisprudence, physiology, psychology, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

human & animal; /inj: coordinate with specific injury; consider also DIVING; index NIM for swimming in animal experiments on PHYSICAL EXERTION

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  1. G11.427.410.568.800w
  2. G11.427.410.698.277w.875w
  3. I03.350w.875w
  4. I03.450.642w.845w.945w.500w

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QT 260.5.S9

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Swimming. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013550. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013550
  2. Swimming. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming
  3. Swimming. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6388