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1 costume
['kostju:m]1) (an outfit, especially for a particular purpose: swimming-costume.) dragt2) (dress, clothes: eighteenth-century costume.) klædedragt; dragt* * *['kostju:m]1) (an outfit, especially for a particular purpose: swimming-costume.) dragt2) (dress, clothes: eighteenth-century costume.) klædedragt; dragt -
2 swimming costume [Br.]
badedragt {fk} -
3 bikini
[bi'ki:ni](a brief two-piece swimming costume for women.) bikini* * *[bi'ki:ni](a brief two-piece swimming costume for women.) bikini -
4 swim
[swim] 1. present participle - swimming; verb1) (to move through water using arms and legs or fins, tails etc: The children aren't allowed to go sailing until they've learnt to swim; I'm going / I've been swimming; She swam to the shore; They watched the fish swimming about in the aquarium.) svømme2) (to cross (a river etc), compete in (a race), cover (a distance etc) by swimming: He swam three lengths of the swimming-pool; She can't swim a stroke (= at all).) svømme3) (to seem to be moving round and round, as a result of dizziness etc: His head was swimming; Everything began to swim before his eyes.) køre rundt2. noun(an act of swimming: We went for a swim in the lake.) svømmetur- swimmer- swimming
- swimming-bath
- swimming-pool
- swimming-trunks
- swimsuit
- swimming-costume* * *[swim] 1. present participle - swimming; verb1) (to move through water using arms and legs or fins, tails etc: The children aren't allowed to go sailing until they've learnt to swim; I'm going / I've been swimming; She swam to the shore; They watched the fish swimming about in the aquarium.) svømme2) (to cross (a river etc), compete in (a race), cover (a distance etc) by swimming: He swam three lengths of the swimming-pool; She can't swim a stroke (= at all).) svømme3) (to seem to be moving round and round, as a result of dizziness etc: His head was swimming; Everything began to swim before his eyes.) køre rundt2. noun(an act of swimming: We went for a swim in the lake.) svømmetur- swimmer- swimming
- swimming-bath
- swimming-pool
- swimming-trunks
- swimsuit
- swimming-costume
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