(intransitive) to swim (to use swimming motions to move in the water) [auxiliary sein] / (intransitive) to swim (for pleasure, as a sport, etc.) [auxiliary sein or haben] / (intransitive, transitive) to swim (a certain distance) [auxiliary haben or sein] / (intransitive) to transport by floating [auxiliary haben] / (intransitive) to float, to be floating [auxiliary haben or (more rarely) sein] / (intransitive) to float (somewhere), to move (somewhere) by floating [auxiliary sein] / (intransitive) to be doused or covered in liquid [auxiliary haben] / (intransitive) to be swimming in (money, etc.) [auxiliary haben] / (intransitive) to be moving in a blurry or indistinct fashion, to swim (in someone's vision) [auxiliary sein] / (intransitive, colloquial) to lose control (of a situation) [auxiliary haben]

gerund of schwimmen; swim, the act of swimming

to breaststroke

(figuratively) to be rolling in money, to be rolling in it, to be minting it (to be extremely well-off financially)

(idiomatic) A jocular expression used to encourage or justify the consumption of alcohol, especially wine, with fish dishes.

genitive singular of Schwimmen

present participle of schwimmen