Other forms: swimmers
A swimmer is somebody moving through water under their own power. Competitive, or simply out for a length or two.
English divides them further, since a strong swimmer is a description that matters in a safety warning and a weak swimmer is the reason lifeguards exist. Competitive swimmers are named by stroke, so a breaststroker or a backstroker. There is a warm phrase in wild swimming for open water, which Britain has taken up enthusiastically in the last decade despite the temperature.
1nounswimmerA person who swims.
“She was a strong swimmer even in her seventies.”
Middle English
swimmere
English, today
swimmer
From Middle English swimmere, equivalent to swim + -er. The dumplings are so called because they are often served in stew.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA